Re: bitchx (sucks!)
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:44:12 +0100, homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:
>Steve, most of the docs you pointed out say next to nothing. One may try to
>guess (as surely most bitchx users do) how to work things out, and that
>works some times, but not always.
I didn't guess, I RTFM'd. I read in the docs that BitchX is a
derivative of ircII. The ircII man pages are included in the BX package.
Gee, start there. Also it states that /bhelp (not /help!!!) is the BitchX
help. /help depends on the ircII help files which, unless you've installed
ircII, aren't there.
>What really puts me off is the fact that, eg., /help say, will tell me how
>to show some fancy (but useless and annoying to others) way of echoing the
>typed characters on screen, and though other commands, probably more useful,
>there's no help available or almost none.
/bhelp. How many times will I say that before it sinks in. I found
that in the first 20-30 seconds when I first used BX.
>What DID make me angry was the fact that whenever I tried to join #bitchx to
>get some help, I was banned from entering the reason being "spammers,
>flooders and cloners, oh my!"
Could that be because your domain is banned? I bet it is. And why?
Because they had problems with people from your domain flooding, spamming
and clonning on their channel. Some of the channels I ran banned entire
COUNTRIES because of people like that.
>I just felt they didn't want most ppl using their program (whoever they
>were), fair enough, just don't make it publicly available and make me waste
>my time.
So far I've seen no evidence of that. So far all I've seen is a guy who
does RTFM, is a clueless newbie who took a domain ban personally and is now
whining publicly.
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