On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 14:17 +0200, Christian Thaeter wrote: > I never felt comfortable with the public logging. IRC is meant to be a > volatile place where humans meet and talk, this is also a social part of > the community, you wouldn't like either if your pub-talks are logged, > even if you meet with programmer buddies at the pub! IMO there is no > much benefit of (public) logging an irc channel its rather even > contraproductive for serveral reasons: > * Things will be on google for eternity, one has to fear that things he > saied could be misinterpreted out of context. > * The signal to noise ratio is very high, you have to read pages of logs > to gather little usable information. > * in an chat are many errors, assumptions, half baked ideas, rumors. > * People who know that this is logged are less motivated to write > conclusions down to some formal/official document. > I am one of those odd people who actually read and occasionally glean some knowledge from the IRC logs, so please don't take away IRC logging. scott
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