On Wednesday 24 December 2003 00:06, technomage wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 07:03 pm, Austin Godber wrote:
> > two ...
> >
> > i agree with Craig... wha's mage have to say about tall of this... ??
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:22, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:01, Ed Skinner wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:19, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> > > > > irc.freenode.net should work as well.  #phxlug might be more us=
er
> > > > > friendly than phlug.  Just a suggestion.  I am happy with whate=
ver
> > > > > it is, at least it will be more widely accessible.
> > > >
> > > >      Anyone besides me and Derek have an opinion? (Both #phlug an=
d
> > > > #phxlug are available -- I'm camped out on both at the moment but
> > > > sometimes away from the computer taking care of "Honey Do"s.)
> > >
> > > ---
> > > I'm not a user of the irc so perhaps my comment is not relevant but=
 it
> > > seems to me that mage really wants to do this for plug - kind of hi=
s
> > > contribution and it's a way to keep honing his skills as well. You
> > > might want to get him to weigh in on the idea of taking it to
> > > freenode.net - How important is it to be up 100% of the time?
>
> in response, yeah, I like to keep my skills sharp. I'm getting a bunch =
of
> new ones though trying to track down some troublesome errors in someone
> elses code though.... I think it may be the ircd is incompatible with m=
y
> current libs now (the OS is newer than the ircd).
>
> Still, I don't mind running the server. I have shell accounts too if an=
yone
> wants to borrow one.
>
> Mage

     The use of freenode.net was suggested, I think, because no one wante=
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to feel unduly obligated/pressured, and only as a temporary solution.
     I haven't been much of a chat'er in the past but have discovered I e=
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lurking and occasionally making a comment or offering an idea. When your =
chat=20
daemon is ready to go again I will gladly switch my focus.

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Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/