Proposing IRC help channel

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Wed May 11 11:44:32 UTC 2005


On 5/11/2005 15:00, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>Since nobody else has replied to this already...
>
>On 2005-05-10 10:47, Anthony Chan <anthony at warrior.denigrate.org> wrote:
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>
>>Good day,
>>I'm not sure if im addressing this to the appropriate party.
>>This is the contact that shows up on
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/support.html#IRC
>>    
>>
>
>Right.  Yes, you did sent this to the right place :-)
>
>  
>
>>Anyhow, I own #FreeBSDHelp on DALnet, we offer help and support on the
>>operating system.
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>
>There is usually no good way to verify this, so we have to take your
>word for it.
>
>  
>
>>Right now we have a decent amount of traffic and a decent amount of
>>good, well experienced helpers.  I was wondering if it was possible to
>>add us or better yet, the channel name on the site, this way we can
>>offer help to more users.  We also own www.FreeBSDHelp.net which is
>>currently in development.  If you can spread the name in anyway
>>what-so-ever it would be highly appreciated, please send a response as
>>soon as possible.
>>    
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>
>Would an entry like this be ok?
>
>% Index: book.sgml
>% ===================================================================
>% RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
>% retrieving revision 1.701
>% diff -u -r1.701 book.sgml
>% --- book.sgml    1 Apr 2005 18:51:35 -0000       1.701
>% +++ book.sgml    11 May 2005 09:28:22 -0000
>% @@ -1052,6 +1052,16 @@
>%              </listitem>
>%
>%              <listitem>
>% +              <para>Channel <literal>#FreeBSDHelp</literal> on
>% +                <ulink url="http://www.dal.net/">DALNET</ulink>
>% +                is available at <hostid>irc.dal.net</hostid> in the
>% +                US and <hostid>irc.eu.dal.net</hostid> in Europe.
>% +                The channel owners also have a web page with useful
>% +                information about the channel and &os;, available at
>% +                <ulink url="http://www.freebsdhelp.net/"></ulink>.</para>
>% +            </listitem>
>% +
>% +            <listitem>
>%                <para>Channel <literal>#FreeBSD</literal> on
>%                  <ulink url="http://www.undernet.org/">UNDERNET</ulink>
>%                  is available at <hostid>us.undernet.org</hostid>
>
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Looks ok :)

Regards
S.


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