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