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- Message-ID: <RELUSR-L%93012515364885@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.relusr-l
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:17:42 CST
- Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET>
- From: "Ajay J. Patel." <FREE2019@UIUCVMD.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Relay Ops and IRC Equivalent
- Lines: 59
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- I want to get on IRC, but i don't have any files that would let
- me do so from this VM account of mine.
- Can someone help me please? if there are files required, could
- you please send them to me? thank you.
- You may contact me thru personal e-mail at: Free2019@uiucvmd.cso.uiuc.edu
- Thank you.
-
- --AJ.
- Thank you.
-
- --AJ.
-
-
- This NOTE is a reply to:
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- >From: Christopher Davis <ckd@EFF.ORG>
- >Subject: Re: Relay Ops and IRC Equivalent
- >To: "A. J. Patel" <FREE2019@UIUCVMD.BITNET>
- >In-Reply-To: Rich Jacobs's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:08:34 EST
- >
- >RJ> == Rich Jacobs <RJACOBS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
- >
- > RJ> This is one of the major reasons why I avoid IRC most of the time.
- > RJ> There are *to many* people with higher privalages on IRC and I see
- > RJ> this "channel op" privelage as being abused to a very high degree.
- >
- >So start your own channel.
- >
- > RJ> I have been on channels where people are booted off for no reason at
- > RJ> all.
- >
- >So start your own channel.
- >
- > RJ> It is not uncommon to see 5 and 6 people booted off a channel.
- >
- >So leave that channel and start your own channel.
- >
- > RJ> When you have so many people that have that type of power, there is a
- > RJ> great chance of it being abused. And I have seen it in action.
- >
- >So go to a different channel.
- >
- >The whole point of channel operators on IRC was to allow users to have more
- >power over their own destinies--both to get IRC operators out of the
- >business of resolving user-user disputes and to take some of the "glamour"
- >out of being an IRC operator.
- >
- >If you want a quiet channel for people to converse, and you don't want
- >anyone kicking, or whatever, start your channel, invite some people, and
- >don't give anyone else channel operator!
- >--
- > * Christopher Davis * <ckd@eff.org> * <ckd@kei.com> * [CKD1] * MIME * RIPEM *
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