Subject: Re: Community Issues ** LONG ** To: Mason Loring Bliss
<> From: Trouble Free RecepPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF <> List: netbsd-
users Date: 02/21/1999 10:51:59 Mason Loring Bliss writes:
[something about IRC:#netbsd not being accessible, "besides,
it's IRC".  (whatever that means).  Also something about lack of
direction, bickering  and a netbsd-chat list (or was that Hubert
Feyrer?).]  Perhaps if we adopted a standard bare-bones irc
program?  I've been wanting to get onto the irc for ages now and
finally broke down and loaded BitchX. But it's cumbersome,
there's no man page for it (it's all in a doc section
somewhere), and the title is less than appealing in a household
that has pre-school toys present.  I, too, would like to see
NetBSD have a direction, but quite frankly, I think that
socially we've already lost the war.  The key to our success is
our interoperability with other systems -- if we're to have a
chance in hell, we have got to push that point.  Linux and
FreeBSD have the roost right now; if FreeBSD