"JABBER" on the list Can't we keep it down?

[Nancy Sollars]

Nice im on it the server now ....

its way quick

Nige
----- Original Message -----
From: "Technomage" <technomage-hawke@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: "JABBER" on the list Can't we keep it down?


> um, I have an irc server up and running.
> pretorian.ath.cx port 6667.
>
> I don't have many bots running on it and chan linux is available
> for creation. if someone needs a place for live chatter, chat, etc,
> then here it is (I have good uptime, so its not a problem).
>
> Technomage Hawke
>
> sm wrote:
> >
> >
> > Rather than cluttering up the list with jabber related trolling, it
might
> > be more appropriate to ask if there's a announcement related mailing
list,
> > or something along those lines.  Most organizations have one.
> >
> > Since there's a lot of crosstalk between organizations around here, as
you
> > yourself point out, it makes some sort of sense that the PLUG list,
which
> > is the most general and least Official[tm] list of these organizations,
> > have a lot of the jabber that is an unavoidable side effect of this form
> > of communication.
> >
> > This is the reason I have PLUG in it's own folder, as I have AZIPA,
AzPHP,
> > ASULUG, and the apparently 4,000 other Arizona related free
software/open
> > source mailing lists I'm on filter into their own seperate boxes.
> > Surely, if it were not for Procmail, I would be dead.  I would have
> > drowned in the stream of babble.  Hooray for procmail.
> >
> > A complaint was raised against this person in a public forum.  They
should
> > be allowed to respond in kind.  Do I really care?  No.  How long would
it
> > take me to delete the post?  Yea, about three seconds.
> >
> > Now, I may be going against the grain here.  More people may think that
> > this is a problem rather than just an unfortunate side effect.  In which
> > case, perhaps a seperate 'plug-useless' mailing list could be set up, or
> > perhaps a completely different form of communication, such as IRC, or
more
> > appropriately, a Jabber server. :)
> >
> > -Sam
> >
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