I just had this discussion with Remy Suen:
rcjsuen: toulmean: It is certainly nice that newsgroups answers can be archived whereas IRC isn't. toulmean: rcjsuen: well. We could archive the IRC discussions with echelog to some extent ? rcjsuen: toulmean: In a way. I guess part of the issue is that newsgroups postings are generally better formulated than IRC chat logs. toulmean: rcjsuen: well, yeah, but I prefer IRC because of the human touch. rcjsuen: But well, it isn't something we can do anything about anyway. toulmean: yeah. You know eventually we could add a command to KOS-MOS: remember last 5 exchanges with x, y, z toulmean: and post those exchanges to the newsgroup toulmean: rcjsuen: then KOS-MOS would send back the url to the message it posted rcjsuen: I don't know about that. toulmean: rcjsuen: so all the guys asking hard questions can ask them, then we push the questions to the newsgroup, so there is no overlap. toulmean: rcjsuen: otherwise people ask once, two, thee times in different places. It's hard. rcjsuen: Right. toulmean: rcjsuen: just an idea, do what you want with it. rcjsuen: toulmean: When I remember to (which I usually don't), I try to put the question in the FAQ when it's been asked a lot. toulmean: rcjsuen: let's about it again later ? let's let it sink a bit.
What do you think ? A keeper ?
That’d be cool. But for how many questions appearing on IRC that’d be useful? Who’d decide to send a post? Who’d figure in post’s sender field?
Maybe better personally redirect questioner to newsgroup? If he won’t go there, then his question wasn’t worth posting.