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
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