Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 19:17:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@slashnet.org> Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, Ron Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005021916550.8491-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> In-Reply-To: <20000502005033.A68966@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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We set topics and we tell them verbally that it isn't a help channel but in turn we're either insulted or ignored, resulting in smart-ass remarks and/or bans. On Tue, 2 May 2000, Sean Kelly wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:39:25PM -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > No, just something to think about would be this. There IS a help channel > > for FreeBSD on EfNet in which it IS safe to ask questions. It's called > > #freebsdhelp. The people asking for help in #freebsd are violating the > > channel rules and are defeating the whole purpose of having #freebsdhelp. > > Next time you see people asking for help in #freebsd, refer them to > > #freebsdhelp before they get banned. > > Just thinking aloud here, but when the #FreeBSD channel was made, the founders > should have known that people who needed help would randomly try to join a > #freebsd channel and ask for help. Wouldn't a more logical naming scheme would > be to have the help channel be #FreeBSD and the convo channel be #FreeBSD-Talk? > > You have to understand that it's not the users' fault that the names are so > undescriptive and generic. If it really bothers you that much, make some sort > of bot that sends a notice to people when they join that warns them that they > will be banned and refers them to #FreeBSDHelp. > > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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