I second slack as an irc replacement. You can link slack to irc so you don't have to deal with yet another interface.
I don't see it as a replacement for email though. Carolyn Sent using a mouse-sized keyboard with feigned autocorrect intelligence. > On Jul 12, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > > For what it's worth, I agree with Adam regarding email, but slack is a pretty > clear replacement for IRC in a lot of companies and even sysadmin groups that > I'm in. > > Matt > >> On Jul 12, 2015 9:06 AM, "Adam Moskowitz" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Allan Irving wrote: >> > How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists? >> >> While email may not be perfect, and it doesn't offer many of the >> features found in tools such as Slack or Google Plus or Twitter, it has >> two big advantages: First, everyone uses email, so no matter how many >> forums you participate in, messages appear right there in a tool you >> already go to multiple times per day. The alternative is to learn a half >> dozen different interfaces, with what seems like a new one every year. >> Second, email is pretty much the only not-real-time communication >> mechanism that lets each user pick his or her own interface. I like >> mutt, he likes Google Mail, she likes the Apple Mac mail client, some >> other guy likes Thunderbird, and one person I know still uses a weird >> emacs mail client -- but it's all the same messages. Sure, sites like >> Twitter publish their APIs, but there are still many more email clients >> than there are clients for any particular forum tool. >> >> So thanks, but I'm sticking to email. >> >> Adam >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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