[SPARCbook] Re: IRC

[Swift Kick]

With all due respect to all those fine people you mention on your post,
here's my 2 cents...

Bill Bradford wrote:

<snip>

> Oh really?  I'm a #unix regular, and I havent seen a h4x0r kiddie in
> there in MONTHS.. thats what #linux and #root are for.  You can usually
> find me, CHris Petro (author of the "FixSolaris" document), Melody Yoon
> (head Solaris admin @ Hotmail), Jordan Hubbard (of FreeBSD fame), etc,
> in there on a nightly basis.

AHEM.  #linux, no question. #root, hold a minute.  Being a #root
regular, I can say that there aren't really any "h4x0r kiddies" there.
As a matter of fact, they're usually removed fairly quickly from the
channel, once they show their colors.  
There's a number of very knowledgeable people in #root as well, among
them Randall Schwartz (author of O'Reilly's Learning Perl, and co-author
of Programming Perl), Melody Yoon (who you also mentioned), and a few
others, some of which are also members of this list.
Being on EFnet for the past 4 or 5 years, I could also say that #unix
may be a rather 'asinine' channel at times, not necessarily everyone in
there, but a few select individuals that seem to take the BOFH attitude
a little too serious.
I urge you to keep your personal opinions of a particular channel away
from this list, since it is up to the individual to decide what may suit
his needs best.  

Regards
Paul

Paul Santos                                   uzziel at erols.com
                                                cain at EFnet
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