[CentOS] IRC telling you to go to mailing list - it's for good reason ....

[Les Mikesell]

R P Herrold wrote:
>
>> What's a drive-by, and until a post is made and answered 
>> somewhere, how is a user supposed to know if a failure is 
>> caused by something local (mix of software, internet 
>> infrastructure), one repo mirror, or the basic 
>> infrastructure?
> 
> Lemme change hats
> 
> Dunno that I know your 'nick', Les, nor have seen contribution 
> by you in #centos IRC.  Is the CentOS' re-design on IRC a 
> culture you understand via lurking a bit? [Clearly the earlier 
> poster I trimmed down to respond to was not, as it clearly 
> misstated some CentOS changes from 'bog standard' IRC 
> practice]


I don't use IRC at all - and don't like real-time typing in general.  Email 
seems much more civilized in terms of both giving you time to think before 
typing and being able to interleave with the rest of your life.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com