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- From: herm@acme.etsu.edu (Herman H. Fredriksson)
- Subject: Re: help: how does channels got named?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.082005.24206@ra.oc.com>
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- Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas, USA
- References: <1992Nov13.135538.90585@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <thecure.721640640@munagin>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:20:05 GMT
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- thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious) writes:
- >ecn644e@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
-
- >>Dear netters,
-
- >>I am relatively new to irc, but interested in knowing whether those channels
- >>on irc is somehow standard (eg. hottub, sherwood etc) because I saw them in
- >>most servers. Or channels names are arbitrarily given.
-
- Channel names are totally arbitary. Although they are prefixed
- with a '#' char. Certain other nasty characters are not permitted
- and are stripped out.. these include BEEP's (^G), and ',' and perhaps
- some others which I cant remember at the moment. RTFS :)
- hope this helps you out.
-
- herm.
-
- >I suggest asking around. mail troy@cbme.unsw.edu.au for more details
- >(he appears to be happy to splurdge other peoples email address around.)
- lame.
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