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[Norberto Quintanar]

--- sloopy <> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 13:11, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> > --- Clinton MacDonald <> wrote:
> > > Mr. Lyons:
> > > 
> > > Earlier, I made a mistake:
> > > 
> > > > Robert Lyons wrote:
> > > >> Does anybody know of a Yellow Dog forum that I can get to in
> > > >> addition to the mailing list, or an IRC chat?
> > >  >
> > > > These lists are the best *free* source of support
> > > > that I know of. You can search the List archives
> > > > (another great resource) from the top of any
> > > > Yellow Dag Linux page:
> > > 
> > > It turns out that there *is* an IRC channel for YDL:
> > > 
> > >  From <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/>:
> > > 
> > > A YDL User Channel
> > > 
> > > There is now a Yellow Dog Linux IRC channel on the FreeNode IRC
> > > Network 
> > > in addition to channels for many other open source projects.
> > > #yellowdog 
> > > can be accessed via an IRC client such as "XChat" at
> > > 'irc.freenode.net'.
> > > 
> > > Best wishes,
> > > Clint
> > 
> > IRC tends to be for script-kiddies.  I've gleaned much more from
> the
> > YDL lists themselves than from chatting with some wanna be l33t
> > script-kiddie.  There is a reason for the axiom, always get it
> > straight from the horses mouth.  What better place to get YDL
> info
> > than from the YDL lists?
> > 
> > 
> 
> well not all of irc is script kiddies... especially on freenode,
> and in
> the #yellowdog channel there is usually an employee of TSS there to
> answer questions, give information, and just be around for moral
> support... they do an excellent job for the limited resources they
> are
> working with, and should be commended...
> 
> sloopy.

Exemplary behavior for TSS.  Would have never suspected that they
would form lists with self-support, then go the IRC route.  But if
people are happy, they will continue using it, which is the true test
if something is good.




	
		
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