From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 1 23: 0:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEFB37BC73 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 23:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: from cx443070a ([24.4.93.90]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000502060011.MOHY13130.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@cx443070a>; Mon, 1 May 2000 23:00:11 -0700 Message-ID: <002d01bfb3fb$a2e5de00$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Sean Kelly" Cc: "Ron Rosson" , References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> <20000502005033.A68966@edgemaster.zombie.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 22:59:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4132.1800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4132.1800 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Ignorance kills. They don't accept stupid questions in #linux, or #eggdrop either. They all have associated help channels. Get a clue. IRC is not for the weak. If you can't take an occational kick/ban go back to AOL or DalNet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message