My experience with irc was a while back when I wanted to build a ship fitting tool for Eve. I'd get on irc, look for someone I needed to talk to. Not on? Wait. Check again later, still not on. Check again later, still not on. Give up, try the next day. Finally after a couple of days I get a hold of the guy, he answers my question and gets right off irc. Then I have another question and the whole process starts over.
Contrast that with: send an email to a group of people, wait for a response. Option 2 is a much better use of my time. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected] > wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 07:31 -0800, Justin Collum wrote: > > I agree. My exposure to IRC was a mildly frustrating experience. I > > think people check their email way more often than they log on to irc. > > And it's easier to formulate a thought in email. Where you have > > paragraphs and formatting. > > Ditto; and putting code snippet's etc... in IRC is pretty wretched. > IMO, nothing beats maillist (hands down). You can sort, archive, post > (with attachments, quotations, etc..) and then the wonderful listservs > archive for everyone else. I've never understood some people aversion's > to lists. > > I usually have an IRC client open to three channels (#GRLUG, #gtk, and > #ogo). Other than chatting with some fellow OGo hackers on #ogo the > amount of useful traffic is very close to zero. > -- > OpenGroupware developer: [email protected] > <http://whitemiceconsulting.blogspot.com/> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DbLinq" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dblinq?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
