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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Daniel - it should be public IMO only because you don't want some lesser experienced operators wandering into these IRC brothels and catching something or worse, giving them something...so to speak. I can wander into any chat really and say I'm vaul pixie and make you do bad things potentially, like make you buy a CB and contact me on 'secure' Channel 19 with your name server password so I can 'help'. That's 'bad', yes yes, digital certs, pgp, etc. All that.<BR>
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I wouldn't cry if IRC was deprecated, or archie, or gopher, but..that'll never happen so better to use education as the 'jimmy hat'. <BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Daniel Roesen [<A HREF="mailto:dr@cluenet.de">mailto:dr@cluenet.de</A>]<BR>
Sent: Wed Dec 21 21:50:27 2005<BR>
To: nanog list<BR>
Subject: Re: #nanog: was Re: <A HREF="http://weblog.disgu.st">http://weblog.disgu.st</A> down<BR>
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 04:06:02AM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote:<BR>
> >>I'd like to see a useful #nanog where network operators could chat.<BR>
> ><BR>
> >That channel does exist but is not NANOG-related. Some #nanog folks who<BR>
> >do want to finally chat on-topic hang out there. Quote from one of them:<BR>
> >"dude, this is prolly the most on topic IRC channel I was ever in". :-)<BR>
> ><BR>
> >Fortunately, even with currently almost 200 folks in it, there is enough<BR>
> >self discipline to stay mostly on topic.<BR>
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> It looked more like an 3l33t hax0rs channel to me when I visited.<BR>
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You are certainly talking about a different channel than me. The one I<BR>
was talking about (and that should have been a private reply, not a<BR>
reply to the list) isn't named #nanog.<BR>
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Anyway, apologies to stir this discussion, it should have been off-list<BR>
anyway. :-Z<BR>
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Best regards,<BR>
Daniel<BR>
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