[BUGS] IRC

[Andrew Reilly]

I love the old strength in numbers angle (moderated by the law of large numbers: 12 is enough!)

Never done IRC, so I don't really have an oar in this race (but I do BUGS).

Question for the gathered nabobs: do the recent machinations around ownership of .org, and the likely (at least possible) future expense bear on this issue at all?

Side order, for extra points: as one generally interested in beer, and unaware of imgur, what's an IRC, and how does one wrangle it in a convenient fashion?  Is it better than email?

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew

On 14 February 2020 12:14:40 am AEDT, matti k <matti.k at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>Hi Andy, answers below ...
>
>On Sat, 25 May 2019 10:22:51 +1000
>Andy Farkas <andyf at andyit.com.au> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Firstly, I know nothing about the administrative background of
>running
>> an IRC server. I mostly just lurk and occasionally post inane shit
>> about beer and sometimes interesting imgur stuff.
>> 
>
>My playing cards say the same :-)
>
>> But now we have four IRC #bugs channels. I think this is too many.
>> 
>
>Not sure how to move forward from this but suspect it should be
>discussed on IRC (although we are discussing here now)
>
>> Relying on 'bugsbridge' seems a temporary solution. (thanks callum!)
>> 
>
>Yes invaluable as it stands.
>
>> I propose ONE primary server to connect to, and deprecate the others.
>> (deprecating seems to be a thing at the moment)
>> 
>> Should irc.oz.org (the original) go back to being the master?
>> 
>
>I think this one,  oz.org is now a viable place to IRC !
>
>> The others are:
>> 
>>   irc.austnet.org
>>   irc.freenode.net
>>   irc.oftc.net
>> 
>
>I Consider those as fallbacks (some from past members) because god
>knows
>we need them.
>
>> I'm not fussed which one is chosen, but there should be only one.
>>
>
>Hope things get better, singular paths are overrated.
> 
>Cheers,
>Matti
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