Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 6/24/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)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)