Should XChat default to freenode and #ubuntu?

[Kristof Vansant]

what about putting a launcher in Desktop that when clicked fires up
xchat and joins #ubuntu-newbie. I would call the launcher Get online
help or something like that.

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 23:08 +0100, Sivan Green wrote:
>On 23:01, Wed 09 Feb 05, Michael Vogt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> 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 :)
>>
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>What's the chance of many people firing up xchat in the same
>time? ;-) But yes, maybe set up to open #ubuntu-welcome and
>have some people over there to guide newbies on their very
>first steps?
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>Sivan
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