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Vladimir Zlatanov wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:50 +0100, Paul Connell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">As far as IRC, why not put a 'bot on the channel and let it record the
session and replicate it on the web? I've been on several chans that do
that, and they say sunlight is the greatest disinfectant, you just have
to be careful what you say!
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I bot is allright, including one that does exports its logs for the web.
I don't think it is best for highlighting a particular conversation
though. Or tagging it with something useful. Regardless how beautified
it is it will remain a kind of a time-line. What I had in mind is more
about extracting from the log really useful conversations.
Personally, I do have an 'ideological' problem with logging everything,
it smells too much as surveillance, and while this is definitely
paranoid I would prefer a somewhat more discriminating solution.
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No it isn't paranoid. Logging will effect how people behave. There are
certain things that <br>
I will not say in a logged forum. I don't think it is an accident that
the first person to raise it<br>
comes from Eastern Europe. There is far far too much surveillance in
Britain and it isn't a good thing<br>
for democracy. Handing over power to authoritarians is not a good idea.<br>
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