Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 6/24/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
A little announcement by Lilo, the director of PDPC and the head of staff of freenode. For those who do not know... Freenode is ... our irc service...
I'd think we'd be better off if people on this list donated first to wikipedia. Freenode is a nice project but wikipedia provides something quite unique. We already have to run our own IRC servers for recent changes...
Freenode's an important service for the open source community at large; it's helpful to be on the same network as it's a little easier to pop over to another project's channel for help & to be helped.
We're really not interested in maintaining an IRC network of our own; we have a limited read-only server for the RC changes, which doesn't involve all the hassles of protecting against person-to-person attacks, crapflooders, etc. The only reason we've got that at all is that the RC bots kept getting automatically kicked from freenode due to their volume, a very specialized case.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)