I personally am for it, but maybe someone can voice the other side. On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Matzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all > > I talked to evmar on irc, regarding logging of the IRC channels > (#chromium & #chromium-dev). He mentioned that he'd like for it to be > discussed in public, before any decisions are made. > > The logging is done by http://echelog.matzon.dk/ and is indexed by > google ;) > > The primary purpose of logging the channels, is of course to make the > channel communication available to people that are not online at the > time. However my experience has also been that people have benefited > from it by being able to point to a conversation discussing a problem, > and potentially a solution. In continuation of this, I have personally > more than once been sent to an irc chat (be it echelog or any other > IRC logging service) describing an issue and often its solution. > > That said, freenode does ask that a channel should specify in its > topic that it is being logged, since there are people that object to > this. > > fwiw, messages can be prefixed with a dash (-) to avoid a message > being logged. > > /matzon > > >
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