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-
- HOW TO BEHAVE ON IRC
-
- Authors: Lea Viljanen (LadyBug) viljanen@kreeta.helsinki.fi
- Ari Husa (luru) so-luru@tolsun.oulu.fi
-
-
- 1) Language
-
- 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.
-
-
- 2) Hello/Goodbye
-
- 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, do it with a private /msg.
- The same applies to goodbyes.
-
-
- 3) Discussion
-
- 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.
-
-
- 4) {}|[]\
-
- 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:
-
- { is an A with 2 dots over it
- } is an A with a small circle above it
- | is either an O with 2 dots over it or an O with a dash (/) through it
- [, ], and \ are the preceding three letters in upper case.
-
- There are a lot of people from Japan as well, who use Kanji characters
- which may look quite exotic as well. As I don't know Kanji I don't
- even try to explain any of the characters.
-
- 5) ATTENTION!
-
- Remember, people on IRC form their opinions about you only by
- your actions, writings and comments on IRC. So think before you type.
- Do not "dump" to a channel or user (send large amounts of unwanted
- information). This is likely to get you /kicked off the channel or
- /killed off from irc. Dumping causes network 'burbs', connections going
- down because servers cannot handle the large amount of traffic any more.
-