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 > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6