[!CrackMonkey!] [monkeywire] Spider-Man gas deliverymen told to wear monkey suits

[Andy Smith]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 09:42:50AM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:
> I totally agree about irc encouraging tyrants.  It's the conversation
> medium by tyrants, for tyrants.  It follows the spirit of
> unhelpfulness and l33tism of warez boards with ``download ratios,''
> so-called ``shareware,'' and the HAM radio software community.  It's
> mediocre, deliberately obfuscated crap with script-kiddie
> documentation. 

I don't buy this.  IRC is only a den of tyrants, lackeys and
politics for those who take an interest in the running of the
underlying network.  There are plenty of channels on plenty of
networks where the people in them take no interest in the network
itself and get on with their lives and their conversation perfectly
well.

It is only when you get

a) corrupt/kiddie networks or
b) disagreement with network policies

that problems occur.  And I think that can happen anywhere, on any
service - even mailing lists.

-- 
Andy - waiting for the GTFOML