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- IRC FOR BEGINNERS - AN INTRODUCTION
-
- The following document will give you an idea if you are
- interested in IRC. A more comprehensive IRC tutorial is
- available using the !irc keyword.
-
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- IRC? IRC stands for "Internet Relay Chat". It was written by
- Jarkko Oikarinen (jto@tolsun.oulu.fi) in 1988. Since starting in
- Finland, it has been used in some 20+ countries spanning the
- globe. It was designed as a replacement for the "talk" program
- that allows two users to chat to each other. It has become much
- much more than single users chatting to each other. IRC is a
- multi-user chat system, where people convene on "channels" (a
- virtual place, usually with a topic of conversation) to talk in
- groups, or privately. IRC gained international fame during the
- late Persian Gulf War, where updates from around the world came
- accross the wire, and most people on IRC gathered on a single
- channel to hear these reports.
-
- You can find more information than what is in this document when
- you get connected to IRC. Enter followin commands:
-
- /HELP INTRO
- /HELP NEWUSER
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- SETTING UP INTERNET RELAY CHAT
-
- The user runs a "client" program (usually called 'irc') which
- connects to the IRC network via another program called a
- "server". Servers exist to pass messages from user to user over
- the IRC network.
-
- To get the client software, you either compile the source
- yourself, have someone else on your machine compile the source
- for you, or use a TELNET client (see !telnet or !telnets for
- more information about using telnet):
-
- "telnet bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu"
-
- Please only use the latter when you have no other way of
- reaching IRC, as this resource is quite limited.
-
- It's usually best to try and connect to one geographically
- close, even though that may not be the best. You can always ask
- when you get on IRC. Here's a list of servers avaliable for
- connection:
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- csd.bu.edu
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- ucsu.colorado.edu badger.ugcs.caltech.edu
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- ug.cs.dal.ca nic.funet.fi
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- vesuv.unisg.ch munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
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- sunsystem2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- This is, by no means, a comprehensive list, but merely a start.
- Connect to the closest of these servers and join the channel
- #Twilight_Zone When you get there, immediately ask what you
- want. Don't say "I have a question" because then hardly anyone
- will talk.
-