IRC? (Was:Re: How to install lilo to the MBR?)

[Alan Dayley]

> On 7/31/06, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
>
>   Most people in the #plugaz chan are idle a large portion of the time.

This is true.  However, if you arrange to meet someone in the channel to
hash out an issue, it doesn't matter if the others are idle since you
brought your own chat partner.

Joe explained why this does not work for him in this case, and that is
fine.  I'm just trying to encourage people to use the IRC more often so it
will be less idle.  It is an excellent resource that is highly underused
by the group.

> On
> a
> side note, the same IRC network also has distro-specific channels eg.
> #fedora_core,#debian,##slackware,etc which are quite full and are usually
> very helpful.

Absolutely!  I solved a VPN issue with help from the #ipcop channel this
last week.  IRC is a great way to get and give help.

Alan