On 04/12/2017 09:36 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > >> To be honest Freenode is nice and I'd be sad to see it replaced with >> anything. >> So cool to be a "/join #project" away from getting help. >> >> > IRC is a problem for those of us behind government/corporate firewalls. IRC > is perceived as a hacker haven and is usually blocked. > >I seem to recall some web-based IRC clients existing.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote:> On 04/12/2017 09:36 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: >> >> To be honest Freenode is nice and I'd be sad to see it replaced with >>> anything. >>> So cool to be a "/join #project" away from getting help. >>> >>> >>> IRC is a problem for those of us behind government/corporate firewalls. >> IRC >> is perceived as a hacker haven and is usually blocked. >> >> >> > I seem to recall some web-based IRC clients existing. > > >True. It isn't a problem that can't be solved :) Just inconvenient; plus the powers that be don't take kindly to circumventing restrictions they put in place, even if it is for real work. My point is, I welcome the initiative this thread is bringing. _______________________________________________> CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
Phelps, Matthew wrote:> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:38 PM, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> > wrote: >> On 04/12/2017 09:36 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: >>> >>> To be honest Freenode is nice and I'd be sad to see it replaced with >>>> anything.So cool to be a "/join #project" away from getting help. >>>> >>>> IRC is a problem for those of us behind government/corporate >>>> firewalls. IRC is perceived as a hacker haven and is usually blocked. >>> >> I seem to recall some web-based IRC clients existing. >> > True. It isn't a problem that can't be solved :) > > Just inconvenient; plus the powers that be don't take kindly to > circumventing restrictions they put in place, even if it is for real work. >Heh. That, and that to paraphrase Todd's disclaimers, I do not speak for the US federal gov't, or for my company... and that's why I use my own "professional" email account, rather than my federal work one, on this list. mark