It's too late now, but an opinion for students who will go on to develop
systems over the next few decades...
IMHO, it might have been better if the IRC channel had never been
logged/archived in the first place, much less bridged to this
billion-dollar data-grabbing intermediary Slack dotcom.
Non-logged and ephemeral is most traditional (pre-Web) use of IRC, for
casual interactions and community building, like might happen in
impromptu discussions and at the water cooler.
Organizations often like surveillance of internal communication
(exceptions including executives' communications, and some highly
liability-sensitive situations), because data can increase the power of
those who have it. But they're discarding some of the potential for
community-building and candor. Bigger-picture, when we think about
non-profits doing it, they're also further conditioning people to
tolerate pervasive surveillance, and setting another example for people
to consider that as the way things are done, and to imitate.
Incidentally, I know of one incident that #racket had, due to the
initial logging that was set up on it (which was a bad idea, IMHO), and
the incident was only remedied because the third-party logging and
gateways had not yet been set up.
Neil V.
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