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- Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.223139.2012@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:31:39 GMT
- References: <BtrD2q.1sz@cs.dal.ca> <1992Aug29.233043.12716@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <Btt2sJ.IHG@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Zell) was telling me...
- >asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) writes:
- >>First I would like to mention...that's three questions. But, actually
- >>I don't think irc is too accessable. There is 2 or 3 limiting factors.
- >>First, the person has to have access to a modem and the net. The majority
- >>of people in the world don't have that. Second, they have to know about irc
- >>before hand. It's not something you can really 'stumble' upon. Third
- >>You have to be able to get to it. Usually that irc is installed on their
- >>site (though people can use telnet clients, that's why it was or 3)
- >
- >Actually, you're wrong about 'stumbling' upon IRC. When I received a booklet
- >on how to use my new account at U of I, there was a page long advertisement
- >about some chat thing called IRC. I tried it out, started reading the HELP,
- >and voila.
- >Joe
-
- Well your wrong about that....if you saw an AD for irc, I wouldn't say you
- stumbled across irc...you might have stumbed across the ad, but not
- irc itself. Meaning you already had an idea and/or incentive to try
- irc before you typed 'irc'
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- -Alex
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