unx20238@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu (Lonny L. Lowe) (03/07/91)
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? Thanks for you time. unx20238@unx2.ucc.okstate.edu unx10030@unx1.ucc.okstate.edu Lonny L. Lowe
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=-