On 20 Mar 00, at 17:54, Nathan Russell wrote:
> When I was in distributed.net, there was an official IRC channel in which
> people could ask questions and discuss the project much more rapidly than
> is possible on a mailing list.
The problem here is that using IRC you only get immediate response
from those who happen to be online at the time.
Personally I dislike IRC for two reasons:-
(1) IRC (like voice telephone) is on-line and you therefore tend to
mouth off before thinking out a logical, coherent reply;
(2) Previous experience with joining an IRC group, leaving soon
afterwards but taking ages to lose the vast pile of commercial spam
which seems to be attracted to anyone who uses IRC at all.
> It has occured to me that this could be something positive for GIMPS.
Provided that someone competent could moderate it.
Regards
Brian Beesley
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