11 Mar
2016
11 Mar
'16
6:42 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Philip Yassin <philcm(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Hi everyone!
I'm a bit ashamed because the question I'm about to ask have been answerer
already, by Paulo falkTX on IRC some days ago, and I simply forgot it.
That's why I don't really like IRC: No backlog or chat archive, a display
glitch and you lose information, but I digress.
In general, providing public logs of an IRC channel is considered to be a
bit questionable. There's a default assumption on IRC that what you say
will not be searchable in the future. Every IRC user is free to use an IRC
client that logs the channel for their own purposes. I have IRC logs from
#ardour dating back to 2005, but will never publish them.
It is MUCH easier to provide support to people on IRC because of the
massively reduced roundtrip time between question and answer.
--p