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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 04:36:41 CDT
- From: <U56933@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92244.043641U56933@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
- References: <BtrD2q.1sz@cs.dal.ca>
- <1992Aug29.233043.12716@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <avalon.715160593@coombs>
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- In article <avalon.715160593@coombs>, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- says:
- >> 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)
-
- >You dont need a modem and you can stumble across it - I did :)
-
- Why do you think there are so many UIUC'ers on IRC? Is it because they all
- happened to stumble upon irc? No! It's because it's in their manual. Let me
- tell you, when you need to compile your own client, know how to edit the silly
- files to get them to work, and other crap, that restricts a LOT of the people
- that get on to IRC. Hell, here at UIC the TCPIPB neo-daemon doesn't work long
- enough to get RXIRC to work for longer than 10 minutes at a time.
-
- In short, the way that [made up number] 90% or so of the people get access
- onto irc is that they know somebody who is already on.
-
- The few, the mighty, the IRCers! :)
-