[Cialug] Work is draining we need an IRC channell.............

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:51:25AM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Josh More wrote:
> >Our new IRC channel is #cialug on FreeNode ( irc.freenode.net ).
> >
> >Since Dave has a mouth, a nose, and two ears, I take that as
> >approval of the plan.
> 
> Sure. Joe (I think it was Joe...) had an IRC channel going for a while, 
> I don't think it ever got used much.
> 
> IRC can be fun and useful sometimes, but IMHO mailing lists are much 
> more practical.

#isulugs is still going.  Not strong, but stronger than it did. 
Takes a while with anything to hit critical mass, especially if
you don't promote it much, which we haven't.

lists and irc fill different niches, IMO, but are both useful. 
I think a lot of getting-to-know-you social chatter, trash
talking, and other fun but not-necessarily-serious community
building kind of exchanges are great for IRC and not so great
for mailing lists.  

Meaty fact-based, detail-oriented discussions, vice versa.

I-need-a-quick-pointer stuff works better on IRC iff that
channel has hit a certain critical mass such that someone is on
and paying attention in a time frame that makes it more speedy
than a mailing list, which few LUG-type lists do, so far as I've
seen.

-- 
D. Joe Anderson         http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
"DRM [...] is to copyright law as a machine gun on                                          
a motion detector is to real estate law"  -- Don Marti