From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 2 11:58:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91A537B965 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 11:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA07510; Tue, 2 May 2000 11:58:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAD9aaFo; Tue May 2 11:57:59 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22752; Tue, 2 May 2000 11:58:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005021858.LAA22752@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC To: alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:58:07 +0000 (GMT) Cc: jgowdy@home.com (Jeremiah Gowdy), tcole@wcug.wwu.edu (Travis Cole), insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net (Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000502173315.A6023@cichlids.cichlids.com> from "Alexander Langer" at May 02, 2000 05:33:15 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > questions are answered. One can find out the information they are seeking > > without annoying the rest of the BSD population. > > Yes, but someone has to point them to this resources, and kicking is > not the correct way. > > If they don't want to listen to you and still ask again, it might be > the time to kick them, but only then. IRC is badly designed. If it weren't, there would be a way to force someone to another channel, and tell them to reask the question there, as opposed to "kick" (I assume: force them out of the channel) and ignore. Like automatically following a referral in a browser. IRC is simply not well designed for the use (technical support) to which people appear to be attempting to put it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message