On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:51, Richard S. Hall wrote: > Also, for me, Gaim doesn't seem to work well with IRC channels since it > doesn't pop up a window or alert me when a message comes in, so I would > pretty much be ignoring it all the time anyway.
Yep, and I also experience plenty of logouts, which doesn't connect me back into the rooms, and I barely notice it. For the record; The ASF itself does not embrace IRC as a medium, since it is considered 'exclusionary' compared to email. The guidelines demands that development discussions happen on the mailing lists, and that IRC chats are not conclusive and discussions are relayed to the dev@ list. As a medium for help, support and so on, it can be very helpful, but again, since IRCs are not archived, not searchable, there is no 'knowledgebase' being built up, and you will end up answering many questions over and over again. /me ducks Cheers Niclas
