It's always great to see people turn their (potentially quite narrow) personal experience into broad proclamations. "I have never had a productive exchange via

It's always great to see people turn their (potentially quite narrow) personal experience into broad proclamations. "I have never had a productive exchange via IRC, therefore it is not possible for anybody to do so!" Meanwhile I have productive IRC, Skype and e-mail discussions all the time, both with colleagues at work and in the open source communities I participate in.