On Mon, 1 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Sure to get you kicked out of many channels too! hahaha Some people seem to
>have an adversion to color for some silly reason. Which just blows me away.
>Especially when they sit and talk about how great their video card and monitor
>is, but when they freak out over color in an IRC channel, it kinda makes you
>go "hmmmm". haha
Well, in my case, I am averse to colors because:
a) they were stuffed down our throats as a proprietary
hack by Khaled, who is a complete [fill in favorite
obscene expletive here]. I wish I still had my copy of
that email where he was just *lambasting* Olli for asking
a question about the color crap.
b) said codes fouled up much text-to-speech software,
which people with impaired vision depend(ed) on to be
able to participate in IRC. (And this effect would more
likely have been noticed before the "standard" was set
had it been set up like a real standard, instead of as an
expression of Khaled's ego.) I know this as fact because
I have several blind friends who had to give up IRC for
some time because of this issue.
c) the fact that all too many people do NOT use these
codes in anything resembling a responsible manner to
highlight small items, but instead to blat large pieces
of colored ASCII "art" into channels where people are
trying to... gee, *CHAT*... about whatever.
I don't think these are "silly" reasons. You may not *agree* with
them, but that doesn't make them "silly."
I have AmIRC set to strip color codes, and I do not use them
myself. In channels where I have ops privilege, people who abuse
color get a warning and then they get kicked. (Of course, in some
cases just the ASCII art alone deserves a kick for flooding.)
George
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