* Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008:01:12 12:15 +0100]: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:08:16AM -0800, Erinn Clark wrote: > > Anyway, time passed, we changed our official servers, and a lot of users > > did not follow from freenode. > > Well, it should be said that also most of the operators decided to care > for both channels or stay on freenode.
Yeah, I knew a lot of the ops stuck around on freenode. I always wondered what kind of coverage it got. (Just to be clear, I don't expect you to stick around and monitor all of these channels all the time!) > > So that's the history, but since you're concerned with the present and > > future... I don't know what to tell you. As Vid says, anyone can create > > channels for anything there -- they are not officially sanctioned in any > > way, they are not officially supported, and very few official Debian > > types hang around there. > > Well, out of the 40 people on #debian-offtopic, around 10% are DDs, and > another 10-20% are known members of the Debian community. So maybe the > problem is that having those people around there gives the channel some > sort of credibility it should not have (given that most of those people > in there just idle). Huh, I didn't know that. I agree that their presence is possibly giving it some credibility (or at least makes it difficult/impossible for us to wash our hands of the situation and declare no relation to it). So what's up? Are any other #d-o patrons? Why y'all misbehavin'? Michael, do you think we need more (new) ops on freenode? It's been a while since we appointed new people... -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
