to irc or not to irc

Tue Jun 22 20:36:15 UTC 2004

I never stated that #nanog was the official channel on efnet. I just
suggested that were servers run by Nanog Folks already existing.

Funny you should mention Jared. Did nether.net at one point and time host an
Undernet Server?

-- Matthew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Brown" <tim at tux.org>
To: "Matthew McGehrin" <mcgehrin at reverse.net>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: real-time DDoS help?

> First and foremost, the #nanog IRC channel has absolutely nothing to
> do with the nanog mailing list, other than it shares some common
> personalities.  Operational discussion is rarely experienced, the most
> often-experienced relevant question is "how do I configure BGP", and
> Secondly and perhaps most notably, IRC is in no way, shape, or form a
> protocol or communications method one would describe as resilient or
> operationally relevant.  Neither are the instant messaging networks or
> Jabber servers.  IRC does not meet the "needs" of operators.
> Describing these needs is a separate topic and probably not
> appropriate for this mailing list, even though you could describe the
> topic as operationally relevant.