A. Kretschmer wrote:
> I'd vote No, because i see very often on #irc people asking something
> like 'how can i see the table definition' or other, and in this cases
> it's easy to say: hey dude, read the fine welcome message *g*
I take this as evidence that the welcome message has limited use in practice.
The recently added "help" command will probably be (minimally) more suited to
these kinds of people.