[kj] Chat/IRC

[ade]

Dude, I think the problem is that you're living in the past - as if anyone gives a flying fuck about netiquette these days. As if it's still important to conserve bandwidth.

Anyway, I've stopped all the me too's, so the list should be fine now, LOL!!

How DO I sleep at night?

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of PRAEst76
Sent: 25 February 2008 09:46
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Chat/IRC


On 25/02/2008, Lennonka <lennonka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cheers

>

> While I'm reading the complaints about the one-sentence messages,


No-one cares when I complain about trolling and massive overquoting
filling up my gmail. What's the fucking difference. Bunch of ignorant
hypocrits. I'm fairly sure there was a 60k message from Alex last
week.


> I'm thinking about founding an IRC channel for us.

> It's a question of few minutes to ask my friends and they would found the

> channel.

>

> What I wonder about - who would use an IRC channel?

> Myself, for sure. But who else?


I don't like chat rooms. i have a shell account with an IRC client
that runs all the time. It's easy to use and drop into.

Frankly I always advise setting up a chat room on IRC and using one of
the java IRC front-ends. Best of both worlds and all that.


>

> Cliff's chat is public domain now, and I praise his courage to have enabled

> that.

> But what? No-one is ever there. Why is it?

>  We don't seem too busy for chatting : )


You also need to keep in mind that this is an international group.
different time-zones mean people come in at different times. The fact
that a lot of the users have been arund for years means they've
probably already become jaded by the fact that there is never anyone
in chat-rooms so why bother?


> I personally think that the server/chat at killing-joke.com is too

> unreliable and slow.


Yes. IRC is time-honoured and established. It's used by knowledgable
people to chat all over the world. Chat-rooms are used by
script-kiddies, muppets and paedophiles.

>

> So, the final question is - do we want an IRC channel?


We had one, no-one used it.

Feel free to try again but without an IRC front-end drawing in the
housewives and retired folk here it'll be dead most of the time. At
least then they might pop in for a minute to say "hi2 now and then and
leave before anyone else has a chance to respond.

-- 
PRAEst76
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