From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 10:57:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F45B16A41F for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:57:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h.nieser@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F8143D45 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:57:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from h.nieser@xs4all.nl) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (nieser.net [194.109.160.131]) by smtp-vbr10.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8AAvsJH053226 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:57:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from h.nieser@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <4322BC29.1050608@xs4all.nl> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:57:45 +0200 From: Hans Nieser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <43227C43.4040304@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <43227C43.4040304@makeworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IRC X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:57:59 -0000 Chris wrote: > I just wanted to make a note - in the past I pushed that FreeBSD on IRC > is a good place for users to seek help - Well, I have been proven wrong. > > While it's true there MAY be a few decent IRC channels that actually > offer help with FreeBSD, I can now say that I was wrong to assume that > the majority of FBSD channels on IRC offer any type of FBSD help or even > care if they offer help. > > While I can't speak for EFNet, UnderNet and FreeNode - I can say for > sure that there are certain channels on DALNet that are NOT help channels. > > While there are some decent users on IRC networks overall, it really > comes down to the management. And in the end - it's the management that > makes the channel. I'm a new FreeBSD user coming pretty much straight from Windows (well, I have tinkered with linux a bit in the past), and I've been hanging out in #freebsd on FreeNode and QuakeNET and found them great places to get help. Despite the fact that some of my questions that I have asked in either channels could probably be answered by some googling or wading through manpages, I've only been told to RTFM one or twice ;)