[Dovecot] IRC channel

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.6.2005, at 00:47, Allen Parker wrote:

> IRC channel:
> irc.freenode.net #dovecot

Just thought I'd say something about this:

I've been idling there also but I mostly ignore all 
"helpdesk-questions" (ie. pretty much everything I see there). It's 
just too easy to waste a lot of time answering them in IRC, and quite 
often people will figure out the solution themselves if they aren't 
given the answer immediately. Or answering questions which have a 
simple answer isn't too bad, but trying to answer something that 
requires a lot of explanations is.

Of course, other people are welcome to waste as much time there 
answering questions as they want, but so far it's been pretty quiet in 
there :)

One thing where IRC is pretty useful is when trying to debug some 
problem that I can't reproduce myself. For example some long debugging 
threads in this list might have been solved faster using IRC, assuming 
the people involved had time to debug it at the same time.

And if you're trying to modify Dovecot's sources I'm happy to help you 
with that in the IRC channel too :)
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