jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/07/91)
(Note Followup-To.) In article <1991Mar6.200002.2563@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu>, unx20238@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Lonny L. Lowe) writes: |> I have searched high and low for ANY information on IRC or Internet Relay |> Chat, and have found NOTHING. Do any of you know how to access IRC, or maybe |> just point me in the right direction? A recent posting in news.newusers.questions, addressing this question, is appended to the end of this message. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Article: 4329 of news.newusers.questions Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!mintaka!mit-eddie!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Telnet Sites Summary: Bzzz Message-ID: <1406@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 91 10:09:42 GMT Article-I.D.: toaster.1406 References: <1398@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <bh.910305153546@lab18.eng.auburn.edu> <1054@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 63 In article <1054@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> tlglenn@cs.arizona.edu (Ted L. Glenn) writes: > For those of you who don't know, Brian is looking for Internet Relay >Chat (IRC) servers. A list of servers available via telnet is: They're NOT available "via telnet" except possibly for protocol hackers. These are TCP services but don't use TELNET protocol. IRC client software is available for UNIX, VAX/VMS, and VM/CMS systems (and possibly others)--you run that to use IRC. Mainstream distribution: tolsun.oulu.fi:irc/irc2.6pre18.tar.Z Experimental release: cs.bu.edu:irc/irc2.6pre18.bu.1.tar.Z Above contain client and server code. Most sites will _not_ be running servers, but instead connect to one of the (well over a hundred) currently operating. Alternative UNIX client: rvw2.hhs.ri.cmu.edu:ircII2.06.tar.Z There are also some GNU Emacs clients "out there"--about 3 "competing" versions at last count. No special privileges are required to compile and install client- side software. However, the UNIX versions require a fair amount of experience to configure properly and actually compile. System administrators are generally capable of handling it; many end-users are not due to its complexity (and size, if your site believes in miniscule disk quotas). Note that this software is continually in a state of development, and you would be expected not to fall too far behind... incompatible changes are the norm with major releases. If you're willing to make a local support commitment, IRC can be ... quite interesting. Relevant mailing lists: irclist@tolsun.oulu.fi for IRC developers; patches, announcements of new versions, discussions of proposed features, etc. appear here operlist@cs.bu.edu for administrators of the IRC subnetwork; "human" issues rather than technical (coding) stuff appear here; connectivity management here as well Requests for subscription should be sent to irclist-request and/or operlist-request at the same domains--NOT to the lists themselves. There is also an alt.irc newsgroup which never really caught on. Another Internet chat system is Forumnet. This makes use of a "proprietary" server at the University of Kentucky. f.ms.uky.edu:forumnet/fn.0.10.tar.Z UNIX client f.ms.uky.edu:forumnet/vms-fn/* VAX/VMS client (requires TWG or Multinet TCP/IP) Questions about this software should be directed to sean@s.ms.uky.edu. -=EPS=-