"JABBER" on the list Can't we keep it down?
Technomage
plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:50:10 -0700
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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