Jay Litwyn wrote: > One reason they are not publicly archived is so that discussions are not > driven into DCC for want of not being held to word, quoted, or caught > displaying a degree of ignorance or a prominent prejudice that you actually > want to be argued out of. It can be live and off the cuff remarks, perhaps > even admissions about personal and otherwise private life. There really is > no telling how your logs will date. I remember one time when it was newsfeed > about war in Tibet, then noise about magnetic levitation. I find IRC tiring > to read and follow when it gets active, then boring when it slows down. Then > there was that ad for carbonated black piss. The trick is to make the logs > yourself in whatever group you want, and pretty much keep it to yourself. > > I prefer having nothing to do with IRC, but I am often left with the impression that its participants come to some agreements which they treat as decisive elsewhere. That subverts acountaability.
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