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- From: 2105995@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
- Subject: Re: IRC session
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.005330.14593@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: RiscMan
- Nntp-Posting-Host: hydra.maths.unsw.edu.au
- Organization: Ban the Mac Society, Aust ltd
- References: <9208101136.AA10442@sand.sics.bu.oz.au> <1992Aug11.104414.29959@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:53:30 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- >s047@SAND.SICS.BU.OZ.AU (Jeremy Lee) writes:
- >>
- >> In article <1992Aug10.031107.25413@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> you write:
- >> >
- >> >Invite to an Archimedes IRC-Session:
- >> >
- >> >When: Friday, August 21 9.00am AEST (+10 hrs GMT)
- >>
- >> In the MORNING!!!!
- >>
- >> It's surprising.. I've rarely seen anyone from the UK on IRC. Can anyone
- >> suggest why?
- >
- >Maybe because of the 10 Hrs time difference? Just think of it: when you
- >go home at 7.00pm, the folks in england just start to wake up (9.00am).
- >The suggested IRC session starts at 02.00am MEST, but nonetheless,
- >I'll try to be there... (if I manage to get up, that is ;-)
- >
-
- Well, i'm gonna try to keep it going as long as possible past 7.00pm AEST
- so that European and Uk acornites can join. I'll try and stay awake :-)
- BTW, if the session starts at 2.00am MEST, then I said it would
- finish at 4pm AEST (7am MEST), so this is not really an excuse :-)
- I'll attempt to keep on the channel from home using the old modem trick,
- but if it gets to 10pm AEST and no-one from Europe is there, i'll
- drop it and call it a night!
-
- I think more of an excuse for less uk-irc-ers is the relative strictness
- of English unis over their undergrads (they seem to make up 75% of irc!)
- Here in Aus, undergrads (1st years) have telnet, irc, ftp and mail all
- FREE (well they do at unsw!). How does that compare with Uk/europe?
-
- >> Could I get some sort of response to the number of people
- >> who have access to IRC. If there is enough interest, I might set up a
- >> bot and make #acorn a semi-permenant channel.
- >
- >good idea.
-
- A very good idea.
- >
- >Gunnar
- Cheers!
-
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