Re: Cooperation (Was: Re: News Flash: Resignation of Executive Board members, delink of zucchini.fl.us.blitzed.org)

On Aug 13, 2005, at 00:02 , Joseph Becher wrote:
> Can we stop the attacking and defending and start working together  
> again?

Well said Joe, and I agree with you. But on the other hand Andy is  
right when he says that it's impossible to run a network if simple  
but necessary changes to the ircd are not applied in time. The main  
problem in this case was that many admins either didn't have enough  
time to spare or lacked interest to fix their servers. But please  
consider that it doesn't need much time to apply changes, apart from  
negotiating server to server links, which I agree were part of it.  
But then you bump out some emails and apply it. Overall all this  
could have been avoided.

Andy is upset because many do not seem to care for Blitzed anymore as  
much as they did before. But nobody admits that (s)he hasn't got  
enough time currently. As he said it's nothing wrong with having no  
time for IRC, but you have to announce the absence properly and get  
someone else to care for the server.

This was not about Blitzed as a community but about Blitzed as in  
running an IRC network together. It wasn't running as smooth as it  
did some time ago, and I really hope, well I am certain, that this  
will arouse us. Still it has done much damage already and I hope that  
we could avoid having more. I like Blitzed for the way it is governed  
too, just like you and I would be really sad if this ends up in the  
users loosing the trust into Blitzed and moving away. And I would  
also be sad if the community which has been built up would split up now.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern