On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> ok - here goes (minded for the wiki):
Thanks, you read my mind :-)
I made some minor changes (and hopefully no blunders :-) and placed it
here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/IRC
/C
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> Questions, answers, and debate in a friendly atmosphere takes place on IRC
> at the #lyx channel on the Freenode network. In order to get there, you need
> a IRC client such as the excellent text based client irssi (or mIRC for
> windows).
>
> http://freenode.net/
> http://irssi.org/
> http://www.mirc.com/
>
> Next you need to connect to your local Freenode server - choose one from the
> list:
>
> http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml
>
> Finally it is just a matter of connecting.
>
> $ irssi irc.debian.org <http://irc.debian.org>
>
> and when connection is established:
>
> /join #lyx
>
> The channel may appear very quite, but try to look in between 20.00-22.00CET.
>
> And in a quite period it is a good idea to check out the channel guidelines:
>
> http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml
>
>
>
> martin
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> On 10/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > the lyx mailing list is busy as always, and it is delightful to see all
> > > sorts of questions (also off topic ones) are answered and debated in a
> > > friendly atmosphere.
> > >
> > > i was wondering if some of the lengthy threads would benefit from being
> > > discussed on IRC - and i am wondering why there is only 7 nicks on
> > > #lyx/freenode. of cause an IRC channel needs critical mass in order to
> > > be a success - that is, a minimum of online people because it is not
> > > fruitful talking to yourself.
> >
> > You don't happen to have an URI or something for this thing? (I don't use
> > IRC very often... is 'freenode' the name of some kind of server and '#lyx'
> > the name of the "channel" on that server?
> >
> > /Christian
> >
> > --
> > Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
> >
> >
> >
>
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
