On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 02:06:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >The ability of some IRCers to blatantly ban entire countries because of the > >acts of a few is why EfNet is in a decline. Too many little kids fighting > >for "power" in a virtual medium. It's funny in a sad sort of way. > > It was on dal.net and undernet, not efnet. I've not been on efnet in 5+ > years for other reasons. And in each case we were justified. When we get > 20-30 people form the same country trying to clone us off a channel each > week and maybe 1-2 "legit" users each month for maybe 10 minutes, well, you > do the math.
Yeah, why should we try to improve our social life when a simple ban command makes us feel powerful. Banning and ignoring is the simplest way to deal with social problems. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09