Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
>
> Eelco Hillenius wrote:
>>> The community learns about each other in a shared, non-exclusionary
>>> method. Private Email/IM/IRC does NOT foster that.
>> Public IRC, free for anyone to join, at a channel that is 'officially'
>> published/ promoted however, does.
>
> No it doesn't. It's exclusionary in that email allows timezone
> independent participation, and IMO, reading an IRC chat after the fact
> is far different than being there. It's like reading a musical score -
> far different than being there.
>
Let's not forget the fact that many users are behind a firewall. This
also prevents the use of IRC.
Alex
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