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- From: s047@SAND.SICS.BU.OZ.AU (Jeremy Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: IRC session
- Message-ID: <9208161113.AA10395@sand.sics.bu.oz.au>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 02:13:28 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- In article <1992Aug13.134058.26472@doc.ic.ac.uk> AlexMC writes:
- >
- > zoetl@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gunnar Zoetl) writes:
- >>s047@SAND.SICS.BU.OZ.AU (Jeremy Lee) writes:
- >>>
- >>> 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 ;-)
-
- Nope. I am ALWAYS around IRC. 24 hours a day :-). Well, maybe not
- continuously, but I keep rather weird hours that are actuall better
- matched with other countries than here :)
-
- >I have seen more brits on irc than aussies, so there !
-
- The Americans (of course) make the largest contingent. I've seen
- Aussies, Israelies, Dutch, German, Norwiegens, Danes, but to date I have
- not seen any British, Scottish, or Irish! So there back! :-P
-
- >>> 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.
- >
- >Not many in britain. but the numbers are doubling quickly.
- >If you create an irc bot, could you allow posting of notices such
- >as "IRC session on Thursday nn of mmm 199x nn:nn GMT," so that
- >we don't clog up the news network.
- >
- >do you see what I mean.
-
- Not Really. IRC bots just keep the channel open at any time, and
- discussions just happen when enough people turn up. I'll set one up
- anyway. Can all those interested in being around IRC please mail me with
- their nicks and the regular account address they IRC from? I'll put you
- in the invite list, (I don't know whether I'll make the channel Invite
- only yet, I've found them to be more sedate and well-mannered than
- channels that are not.) and the regulars will go into the auto-op list.
-
- If the channel turns into a success, and I get the time, I might even
- add a little features like a rumor of the day :) or a local article
- service for things like the FAQ. (Hint Acorn, with >300 IRC users AT ANY
- ONE TIME, it can be a great place for shameless advertising) I couldn't
- make it a very large service without another account though. I've got a
- very low quota here.
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- * . Jeremy Lee s047@sand.sics.bu.oz.au Student of Everything *
- * /| "Where the naked spotless intelect is without *
- * /_| center or circumference. Look to the light, *
- * / |rchimedes Leland, look to the light" - Dale Cooper *
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