On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:46:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:43:09PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:37:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > > On 2004-03-05 17:05:05 +0000 Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> > > > wrote: > > > >>Last I heard, freenode does not respect any project decisions: the > > > >>channel management ends up with freenode staff quite easily. > > > > > > > >Marginally accurate but very misleading. A project does not implicitly > > > >"own" any channels which are named after it. > > > > > > I did not say "own" deliberately. I think this is a matter of respect. > > > freenode has gone against the express wishes of other projects. > > > > Debian does that all the time, when the wishes are > > unreasonable. Consider the wget manpage. Freenode is much the same. > > The wget maintainer would be quite entitled to stop endorsing Debian as > a result; likewise, Debian is quite entitled to stop pointing > irc.debian.org at Freenode. Of course, that's what the "debian.org" part means. I don't think anybody has suggested differently. I don't recall the wget upstream doing this, though. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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