On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
Not sure how this redirection works.
We set the channel +mz (soft moderation) so everything you say on #drupal goes to the channel operators instead of the channel itself. Druplicon, the bot will be opped and will automatically reply to everything you say with an autoreply "Please join to #drupal-dev to ask development question and listen what developers brew. In #drupal-support you will get friendly advice about non-development questions. #drupal-themes can help you with theming problems." and so on. No automatic redirection, just a friendly bot sending private messages to everyone trying to talk.
I do not see any possible purpose making the main channel into a "stub" serves, other than being able to say "ha ha, we're not using #drupal as a support channel!" The devel channel is no easier or harder to find this way than putting a "go to -dev" message on join instead of a "go to -support" message. Developers are more likely to listen and remember than random people asking for support. (Which means we'd have to type "devel?" far less than we type "support?" :-) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson