-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It should be noted that you can, like every other freenode user that wants to keep logs, establish a connection and keep your very own. For example, I have a ClueNet shell account, which is very convenient for this purpose, to which irssi stores all of my logs in ~fastlizard4/logs. If I ever want to search the logs, all I have to do is open up nano and use the search function, or simply `cat ~/logs/channel.log|grep 'Search string'`. You simply cannot release these logs to the public (under current policy). In irssi, to start logging, all you have to do is '/log open -autoopen -targets #channel ~/channel.log' and that channel will be logged. Similar commands exist in every IRC client that I know. It may not be totally "open" as you desire, but anyone can do it and have there own set of logs. - -- - --FastLizard4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FastLizard4 | http://scalar.cluenet.org/~fastlizard4/) WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote: if I it searchable _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

A few years ago, I had asked that IRC have a searchable archive of discussions. I was told that there were daily logs and I could get one if I asked. I asked, and was denied. Until IRC commits itself to openness, it should have little to no impact on any facet of our project. Without searchable archives, IRC is not open in the modern sense, regardless of who or how you can join it, or view it. The archives of this mailing list are searchable. Will Johnson In a message dated 7/30/2009 8:21:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, sean(a)silentflame.com writes: Greetings, The IRC Group Contacts decided last year to hold a surgery every three months where general IRC matters could be brought up for discussion in an environment in which IRC people able to put those into action (which includes all the contacts themselves) were present and involved. Regrettably it took just over a year for the second meeting to be organised, but this pattern will not be repeated! Therefore we invite you to visit <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Group_Contacts/Meetings/August_2009> and sign up for the meeting if you are someone interested in how IRC runs and especially if you are responsible for one or more channels. That page will shortly contain procedural information on how we intend to structure the meeting to get the most out of it. For convenience, I shall note that the meeting is at 1900Z on 3rd August 2009 in #wikimedia-irc-meetings on freenode. Yours, Sean Whitton (seanw on IRC) For the IRC Group Contacts I have posted this message to the main public mailing lists to which I subscribe and would appreciate circulation of the meeting's existence to as many other languages/projects as possible as this is open to all - but please note that the meeting will be held in English. -- Sean Whitton / &lt;sean(a)silentflame.com&gt; OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l **************Hot Deals at Dell on Popular Laptops perfect for Back to School (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1223105306x1201716871/aol?redir=htt…) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Was that English? :D ~Keegan

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:27 PM, FastLizard4 &lt;fastlizard4(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > It should be noted that you can, like every other freenode user that > wants to keep logs, establish a connection and keep your very own. For > example, I have a ClueNet shell account, which is very convenient for > this purpose, to which irssi stores all of my logs in ~fastlizard4/logs. > If I ever want to search the logs, all I have to do is open up nano and > use the search function, or simply `cat ~/logs/channel.log|grep 'Search > string'`. You simply cannot release these logs to the public (under > current policy). In irssi, to start logging, all you have to do is > '/log open -autoopen -targets #channel ~/channel.log' and that channel > will be logged. Similar commands exist in every IRC client that I know. > It may not be totally "open" as you desire, but anyone can do it and > have there own set of logs. > - -- > - --FastLizard4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FastLizard4 | > http://scalar.cluenet.org/~fastlizard4/) > >

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.