Re: IRC server is hostile.

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hey,

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 00:13, Stephen J Smoogen wrote:
> Stuart Children wrote:
> > Hey
> > 
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > 
> >>   "If you'll ask a staffer, we'll be happy to manually drop the 
> >> expired nick you want so that you can re-register it. "
> >>
> >>  okay, how do I ask a staffer ?
> >>
> >>    which is back to the problem
> >>         - have a contact to handle authentication conflict
> >>
> > 
> > http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#gettinghelp
> > 
> 
> I think Daniel is having a bad day... and needs to vent for a bit :).

	Maybe, or maybe nickserv is a giant pain in the ass and we'd have more
people using the channel if wasn't for it? Seriously ...

	(And if bots are the reason we have nickserv, why does #xorg and
#freedesktop get along happily on the same server without nickserv?)

Cheers,
Mark.