From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 22 18:55:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04431 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04410 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:55:26 GMT (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrD-40.aei.ca [206.186.204.190]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04583; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:55:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <353E9F6C.C4D0A905@aei.ca> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:54:52 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Studded CC: David Wolfskill , FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: #freebsd-newbies References: <199804221511.IAA00691@pau-amma.whistle.com> <353E63E7.33DE4826@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Studded wrote: > David Wolfskill wrote: > > Someone else wrote: > > > I would agree with Sue in that the channel, as a help channel, > > >wouldn't be too helpful - the blind leading the blind so to speak, > > >unless some more experienced users could be persuaded to devote some > > >of their time to staffing it. > > > > I agree with that point. > > > > As someone who is relatively new to FreeBSD (per se), but familiar with > > UNIX, and whose job is administering UNIX (mostly FreeBSD) boxen, I > > confess that it had never occurred to me that IRC might be used for > > assistance. > > Without going into too much detail re the rest of your post, I assure > you that thousands of people find useful help on IRC every day. There > are companies that actually provide first-line customer service over > IRC, and there are hundreds of help channels staffed by volunteers that > provide help as good as you can find anywhere. On any given night on > just the 3 main IRC networks there are 80,000 connections and the > numbers are growing consistently, as they have been for years. IRC is > certainly not a fad. :) > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet > *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) Well, what I dont love about it his than its not on one server. I have a way to do the centralisation. 1:Take channel #freebsd-newbies with a bot on every big IRC network. 2:Choice the main server where every one will be. 3:Put the topic on every server "That channel is centralised to irc.* (the name of the server) /server irc.* #freebsd-newbies. Like that, we will be on every network, but we will be indicating where is the main chan. Any comment and suggestion? Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message