On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Steven J Long<sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > Duncan wrote: > >> Wow, joke or not, this is the kind of thing that makes me glad I don't do >> IRC. > Just to answer this quickly, as I think you're querying my earlier assertion > that gentoo IRC is a lot of fun? > > The real point is that on IRC you can just type: /ignore asshat > and you never know that person exists unless someone else is talking to him. > That makes IRC in general a LOT easier to deal with than the ML. > > WRT paludis trolling, every year or so there's another couple of devs who > get drawn into that circle. They usually end up a lot more embittered, and > never as friendly as they used to be, ime. I've personally seen three guys > I rated, and used to chat with, go through that process. In any > event, /ignore makes #gentoo-* IRC bearable for me at worst, and > more often it's a lot of fun.
Er, for the old school folks, let me introduce procmail; and for the new school folks, let me introduce gmail filters. It turns out you can filter in email too ;) > > -- > #friendly-coders -- We're friendly but we're not /that/ friendly ;-) > > >
