Re: irc

[Jamison Hope <jrh@theptrgroup.com>]

On Sep 17, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:

> On 09/17/2015 12:30 PM, David Pirotte wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Per,
>> 
>> Are you not hanging around the #kawa freenode irc channel? just connected and there
>> is 1 user only, who's not you :), and no other kawa users?
> 
> I didn't set to the Kawa irc channel, and I never got in the habit of using
> irc, skype, or similar.  (At one workplace we used text skype, so I would sometimes
> have that up.)

Same here.  We have a Jabber server at work, but I almost never remember
to sign on.

>> 
>> I find it quite nice to interact in real time, it makes things more friendly and for
>> quick quizz, wel, so much quicker! :)  wdyt?
> 
> No objection in principle, if people were using it.  I do tend to get distracted
> too easily (ooo - and intersting arcile on the web - must read it now), and
> it's plausible irc might make that worse ...  But as long as it's not too busy
> I guess it wouldn't be too bad  and if it gets too busy, that would be a nice problem
> to have!

I'm willing to experiment with IRC again.  I try it out every 6 years or
so and last about 3 days before giving up again, mostly because I
haven't thought of anything to say.

Who originally set up #kawa?  ChanServ says it was registered in 2008.

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