On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 Feb 2013, at 12:59, John Haltiwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> IMO, choosing >> EFnet over Freenode is a mistake in the same vein. > > Why? If you have an IRC client, connecting to another server is trivial. > EFNet and freenode are both used by other open source projects, but EFNet is > more friendly towards more ad-hoc groupings. I've used both, but found EFNet > more reliable and far less full of self-important admins on power trips.
Fair enough. I've never had any problems with powertrips on Freenode (well, outside of the usual IRC bullshit, but that's not usually coming from admins). My argument would be that being present on, for better or for worse, the canonical IRC server for F/L/OSS essentially lowers the bar for $dev or $user to get a taste of the Etoile community to zero. Connecting to multiple servers is obviously possible and not difficult at all, but it does raise the bar (unnecessarily, again in my opinion). That said, perhaps it is a decent weeding out of who actually arrives at the channel: only those that took the extra effort to get there. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
