"IRC chat more or less meaningless"
God help us all
A recent article slashdotted shows that IRC keyboard warriors aren't just slogging it out over the keyboard
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05...&tid=95People take a lot of things too seriously!
IRC is renowned, however, for its supposed anon. nature. Another slashdotted article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/technology/circuits/06chat.htmlBasically, it's putting IRC forward as the "next big evil" - the worst thing since hitler invented sliced bread. 'You could not get away with it if it weren't anon, right?'
And think of how many you see come through these forums going "where are the movies? to download?" - there is a common thinking, albeit wrong, that IRC equates to obscurity.
Does this kind of behaviour (public logging of channels syndicated into machine readable *AND GOOGLE-able* format) change that view at all?
just a ponderance
