-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:44:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Steve, most of the docs you pointed out say next to nothing. One may try to >guess (as surely most bitchx users do) how to work things out, and that >works some times, but not always. I didn't guess, I RTFM'd. I read in the docs that BitchX is a derivative of ircII. The ircII man pages are included in the BX package. Gee, start there. Also it states that /bhelp (not /help!!!) is the BitchX help. /help depends on the ircII help files which, unless you've installed ircII, aren't there. >What really puts me off is the fact that, eg., /help say, will tell me how >to show some fancy (but useless and annoying to others) way of echoing the >typed characters on screen, and though other commands, probably more useful, >there's no help available or almost none. /bhelp. How many times will I say that before it sinks in. I found that in the first 20-30 seconds when I first used BX. >What DID make me angry was the fact that whenever I tried to join #bitchx to >get some help, I was banned from entering the reason being "spammers, >flooders and cloners, oh my!" Could that be because your domain is banned? I bet it is. And why? Because they had problems with people from your domain flooding, spamming and clonning on their channel. Some of the channels I ran banned entire COUNTRIES because of people like that. >I just felt they didn't want most ppl using their program (whoever they >were), fair enough, just don't make it publicly available and make me waste >my time. So far I've seen no evidence of that. So far all I've seen is a guy who does RTFM, is a clueless newbie who took a domain ban personally and is now whining publicly. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNuWODXpf7K2LbpnFEQLBHwCfUFpWl1B413TH6Kanzd0ucSnsxgIAnjoM AemQO8PuMPDrZaSk8NO5ocZ2 =kFsC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----