On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:52 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > By design, IRC encourages people to do truly obnoxious things, like > spamming > the channel to announce they're going away, or indicating their status > with > nicknames (which also spams the channel).
If *users* announce they're away, it'll be spam no matter if it's in an IRC channel or on Jabber. And I've seen a lot more people announcing their status in their IM-nickname than is their IRC-nickname (9 chars for nick pwnz) > You also get spammed on IRC > whenever someone joins or leaves a channel. Jabber prevents this by > providing a real presence system. you can ignore this in IRC too. > Jabber provides all the same "modes" IRC > does in group chat, except bans actually work because they're not > stupidly > tied to some arbitrary netmask. yeah. ban is tied to user account ? who prevents an annoying user to creates a lot of annoying accounts ? > Nicknames changes, joins and parts aren't > spammed to the channel unless your client adds them in for you (but > changes > are still reflected in the listing of who is in the chat). you mean, like on irc ? > Jabber networks > don't go on begging sprees for funding. OFTC will invariably spam you > like > every other IRC network since the dawn of time the first moment they > get more > than a few users. i'm sure there are jabber network which do that. but you can use a gateway which doesnt. like using an irc network which doesnt do that. Ok, so it's a flameware irc vs jabber ? On -project ? Duh. I'm not really used to thoses flames, but I thought they were taking place on -devel. The initial post was about moving *irc*.debian.org from an irc network to another. If you don't want to use irc, nobody forces you. But why posting here a mail that has nothing to do with the initial message ? -- Yves-Alexis Perez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]