On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:43:09PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:37:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > On 2004-03-05 17:05:05 +0000 Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > >>Last I heard, freenode does not respect any project decisions: the > > >>channel management ends up with freenode staff quite easily. > > > > > >Marginally accurate but very misleading. A project does not implicitly > > >"own" any channels which are named after it. > > > > I did not say "own" deliberately. I think this is a matter of respect. > > freenode has gone against the express wishes of other projects. > > Debian does that all the time, when the wishes are > unreasonable. Consider the wget manpage. Freenode is much the same.
The wget maintainer would be quite entitled to stop endorsing Debian as a result; likewise, Debian is quite entitled to stop pointing irc.debian.org at Freenode. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]