There should be a way to communicate OOCly to anyone logged on, no matter where they are
Anyhow, the resulting increase in RP and IC activity was nothing short of astounding... infact, there was more IC activity in that period than there is now.
And as a side note, the admin do still have the luxury of re-enabling that global channel if there was ever a need for some kind of mass discussion, not that I can ever see it happening. Course, I bet most of the admin didn't even know it was possible, let alone what the command is ;)