<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/13 Larry Cafiero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry.cafiero@gmail.com">larry.cafiero@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, threethirty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:three@threethirty.us" target="_blank">three@threethirty.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
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We should be actively taking down barriers to joining this community not<br>
erecting them.<br>
</rant></blockquote></div><div><br>And how, exactly, is the painfully simple act of registering an IRC nickname, taking all of a grand total of 30 seconds (if you type slowly) as described in a prior e-mail, a barrier? <br>
<br>Get real, Justin. This is no more a barrier than signing the FAS; in fact, it's probably less of one. <br><br>Further, there's a reason that unregistered nicks do not get into #fedora, but I don't know what it is exactly. Does anyone have any background on this?<br>
<br>Larry Cafiero<br></div></div><br>
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<br></div><div>I'm not sure if spam is still an issue in Freenode, I haven't seen one in months. <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno<br>Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos<br>Sitio: <a href="http://proyectofedora.org/mexico">http://proyectofedora.org/mexico</a><br>
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