<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Keith Hodges <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith_hodges@yahoo.co.uk">keith_hodges@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> Again I disagree. IRC is a first grade medium, and those of us who<br>
> have<br>
> used it for discussing release team issues have been able to have<br>
> actual<br>
> discussions to make decisions and come to conclusions while talking to<br>
> the relevant people.<br>
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> Nothing other than a store-and-forward messaging system is suitable<br>
> for a global process whose participants are volunteers. IRC is<br>
> real-time and so simply doesn't function across time zones, and<br>
> doesn't function across participants extra-project time constraints.<br>
> Keith, get real.<br>
</div>IRC works fine for that, you read the days' discussions and catch up.<br>
You post questions that others answer when they wake up.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Archives? URLs to archived messages? Searching via google?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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