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.
Ec