Should XChat default to freenode and #ubuntu?

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:01:41AM EST, Michael Vogt wrote:
> we have a open bug against the xchat package (#2536) that suggests to
> default to freenode and #ubuntu in xchat. I would like to ask for
> opinions. Should we do that? The only problem I see is that the
> channel may get flooded with a lot of new users. We could also just
> default to #ubuntu-newbies or something :)

I don't use it myself, but I don't think users want to be put into a 
channel they didn't really want to be in. I do think though that if you 
let them know that the channel is there, they will hopefully use it if 
they need help.

Luke