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How to get to IRC
Clients and servers for IRC are available via anonymous FTP from
cs.bu.edu. A few sites offer public access to IRC via Telnet. Two
such sites are wbrt.wb.psu.edu and irc.demon.co.uk. At both
sites, you should log in as irc.
The many server hosts of Internet Relay Chat throughout the net-
work are connected via a tree structure. The various servers
relay control and message data among themselves to advertise the
existence of other servers, users, and the channels and other
resources being occupied by those users.
Fundamental to the operation of IRC is the concept of a channel.
All users are on a channel while inside IRC. You enter the null
channel first. You cannot send any messages until you enter a
chatting channel, unless you have set up a private conversation
in some way. The number of channels is essentially unlimited.