Changeset 689a6e0 for doc/user-guide/Usage.xml

Timestamp:

2005-11-21T11:53:48Z (18 years ago)

Author:

Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

34c0e90, 513a323

Parents:

57db63b

Message:

Changed all documentation references to the control channel from #bitlbee to &bitlbee.

File:

• doc/user-guide/Usage.xml (modified) (1 diff)

doc/user-guide/Usage.xml

@@ -14 +14 @@
 
 <sect1>
-<title>The #bitlbee control channel</title>
+<title>The &amp;bitlbee control channel</title>
 
 <para>
 Once you are connected to the BitlBee server, you are automatically joined
-to #bitlbee on that server. This channel acts like the 'buddy list' you have
+to &amp;bitlbee on that server. This channel acts like the 'buddy list' you have
 on the various other chat networks.
 </para>
 
 <para>
-The user 'root' always hangs around in #bitlbee and acts as your interface 
-to bitlbee. All commands you give on #bitlbee are 'answered' by root.
+The user 'root' always hangs around in &amp;bitlbee and acts as your interface 
+to bitlbee. All commands you give on &amp;bitlbee are 'answered' by root.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+You might be slightly confused by the &amp; in the channel name. This is,
+however, completely allowed by the IRC standards. Just try it on a regular
+IRC server, it should work. The difference between the standard #channels
+and &amp;channels is that the #channels are distributed over all the servers
+on the IRC network, while &amp;channels are local to one server. Because
+the BitlBee control channel is local to one server (and in fact, to one person),
+this name seems more suitable. Also, with this name, it's harder to confuse
+the control channel with the #bitlbee channel on OFTC.
 </para>