Thanks for that quick answer Paul ; I misspoke. I' didn't mean I don't like IRC, in fact I do, very much. And you are right, firing up a client and get help near instantly beats anything else. The culprit here is my foggy memory, not the protocol ;) And yes again, publishing the logs is not cool. And BTW it works very well, #opensourcemusicians on freenode looks like the lobby of a busy studio :)

That said, about that Gx plugin thing ? :p

-pY

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Philip Yassin <philcm@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

 

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