On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are two reasons I could see for people wanting their IRC > conversations to be unlogged, along with my solution: > > * Sharing sensitive information. > - Don't do that on IRC. Use a private chat if you have to. > But if it's really sensitive, you should know that even > a private IRC chat is totally unsecure. > > * Being a total asshat. > - Stop being a total asshat.
A brainstorming session that is logged and distributed and archived is likely to be more constrained and have a smaller scope of ideas than one that is not; this is about reducing the barrier of entry and potential embarassment. Some people are comfortable with doing any discussion on the record or approach any topic as if they were on the record in a panel at a conference; others with valuable opinions might be more shy. Another reason not to log _all_ the time, is the amount of information, as well as potential noise/social banter that is less likely to occur while logging is enabled. This would likely make it more feasible to skim these daily logs than both high traffic mailing lists full of noise/opinions; as well as more feasible than reading the full backlog of high volume irc channels. /Øyvind K. -- «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» -- William Gibson http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
