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- HOW TO BEHAVE ON IRC
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- Authors: Lea Viljanen (LadyBug) viljanen@kreeta.helsinki.fi
- Ari Husa (luru) so-luru@tolsun.oulu.fi
- Modified by: Troy Rollo (Troy) troy@plod.cbme.unsw.oz.au
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- 1) Language
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- The most widely understood and spoken language on IRC is English.
- However! As IRC is used in many different countries, English is by
- no means the only language. If you want to speak some other language
- than English (for example with your friends), go to a separate channel
- and set the topic (with /topic) to indicate that. For example
- /topic Finnish only!
- would mean that this channel would be reserved for Finnish discussion.
- On the other hand, you should check the topic (with /list command)
- before you move to a channel to see if there are any restrictions about
- language.
- On a channel not restricted by /topic, please speak a language
- everybody can understand. If you want to do otherwise, change channels
- and set the topic accordingly.
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- 2) Hello/Goodbye
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- It's not necessary to greet everybody on a channel personally.
- Usually one "Hello" or equivalent is enough. And don't expect everybody
- to greet you back. On a channel with 20 people that would mean one
- screenful of hellos. It's sensible not to greet, in order not to be rude
- to the rest of the channel. If you must say hello to somebody you know,
- do it with a private /msg. The same applies to goodbyes.
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- Also note that using IRCII's /ON facility to automatically say hello
- or goodbye to people is extremely poor etiquette. Nobody wants to receive
- autogreets. They are not only obviously automatic, but even if you think
- you are being polite you are actually sounding insincere and also
- interfering with the personal environment of the recipient when using
- autogreets. If somebody wants to be autogreeted on joining a channel,
- they will autogreet themselves.
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- 3) Discussion
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- When you come to a new channel it's advised you to listen
- for a while to get an impression of what's discussed. Please feel free
- to join in, but do not try to force your topic into the discussion
- if that doesn't come naturally.
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- 4) }{|`~][\@^
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- IRC has quite a lot of people from Scandinavian countries,
- the above characters are letters in their alphabet. This
- has been explained on IRC about a thousand and one times, so
- read the following, do not ask it on IRC:
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- { is an A with 2 dots over it (Σ)
- } is an A with a small circle above it (σ)
- | is either an O with 2 dots over it or an O with a dash (/)
- through it (either ÷ or °)
- ` is an e with an accent over it (Θ)
- ~ is an u with 2 dots over it (ⁿ)
- [, ], \, @ and ^ are the preceding five letters in upper case.
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- Of course (I'm being ironical here), the both the french and the
- german mappings are DIFFERENT.
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- 5) ATTENTION!
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- Remember, people on IRC form their opinions about you only by
- your actions, writings and comments on IRC. So think before you type.
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