On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Nils Toedtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/15/2012 11:24 PM, David Raznick wrote: >> I checked out the terms and conditions on freenode and it seemed like >> it was not a problem. > > http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml says: > > <quote>If you're publishing logs on an ongoing basis, your channel > topic should reflect that fact. Be sure to provide a way for users to > make comments without logging, and get permission from the channel > owners before you start. </quote>
I think I must have slightly misread that. I thought it said it was upto the channel owners entirely. Anyway if you start your message with [off] then it does not log them. > > >> Having a name like okfn_logger, I thought, would make this clear enough. > > Hmmm, that's like hidden smallprint. There are often 40+ clients on > #okfn, i have to scroll down to find okfn_logger There was not at the time and not on #ckan :) > > >> Personally I consider everything on irc public, but I can understand >> that it can cause concerns. >> >> I have done the following to alleviate some of them >> >> * Stopped showing hostname on connection >> * Added a robots.txt to disallow all bots. > > Brilliant, thanks! > > >> * If you do okfn_logger: help, it now shows you where the log files are. >> * We will most likely archive old logs as well. >> >> I do not think making the logs private (i.e just for the okfn) is fair >> or in the spirit of open knowledge. > > Let's strip the hostnames from the old logs too, and reflect the fact > that the channels are logged in their topics. Maybe something like That is a bit too much work for me for a one off unless someone who is better at bash than me can come up with a very quick way to do it. In a few days I will archive any that have hostnames anyway. > > "Find the logs for this channel at http://irclogs.okfn.org"; > > /nils. > > > > > -- > See http://nils.toedtmann.net/ for contact details. _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
