IRC channel ?

[David Payne]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:21:33PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2007 2:53 PM, Peter P. <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I was looking for the IRC channel of this list and couldn't find it. The
> > traditional place is nowadayas irc.freenode.org but there #tlug is taken. #tolug
> > isn't. All one has to do for now is squat a simple bot there to hold the
> > channel. Any takers ? Someone with a server 24/365 could run an eggbot and
> > that's all that's needed. I.e. on http://irc.freenode.net/#tolug . I am there now.
> 
> It's probably not a good idea to 'squat' on an IRC channel. My
> (admittedly limited) understanding of IRC is that the operators will
> do a sweep every now and then, and turf out anyone who's sitting on a
> channel. However, I also understand that a channel with a double hash
> mark is better tolerated by the sysops, so I would recommend we use
> ##gtalug instead.
> 
> And if we're well behaved, we might graduate to #gtalug one day.
> 

Hi,

You don't need a IRC bot, you can just register a channel.  
Freenode seems like the perfect server.  Their website: 

"Freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and 
Open Source Software communities, for not-for-profit 
organizations and for related communities and 
organizations." http://freenode.net/

We fit that very well.  I don't see why they would have a 
problem with us registering a channel with a single #.  From 
experence anything with a ## doesn't exactly fit the above 
discription, like ##MacOSX and ##Windows.

David
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