On 18/01/13 20:53, Gordon Rowell wrote: > On Jan 19, 2013 4:25 AM, "Greg Zartman" <[email protected] > > The world is round. I sleep while you are awake. Email can be read at my > priority. And I can read the thread and digest and excerpt to address > salient points. > > IRC has an immediacy that is valuable if you are there at the time and > is very stale and disjointed later. IM is worse (in this context) as > decisions are made on a one-to-one basis but people think they made them > publicly. I use all of these heavily as part of my job and the three > media have very different functions. > > If IRC is useful to get things going, do it. > > But I am one of the people who won't be there. This isn't petulance. I > read these lists when I have time to do so. > > Please keep public decisions and discussions on the lists. If interim > chats happen in IRC, great. But provide that context here and don't > assume others are hanging out in IRC >
I don't disagree. I just wanted somewhere we could get a bit of 'communal' chat, and not necessarily always about servers. As I mentioned before, I thought it might be nice if people could actually 'chat' to one another as a relational exercise. IRC is not for decisions, just for some gassing and chewing the cud. Sometimes you can get some 'now' advice that you might have to wait for in a forum or other means. Either way, I felt it is worth a try.... _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/
