IRC channel ?

[Brandon Sandrowicz]

On 11/13/07, David Payne <david-KgjyJOZJJiMsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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I don't know I've seen the #perl/#python/etc channels bounce between #
and ##, but I'm an inconsistent IRC user, so YMMV.
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