What IRC server/network do we want to use?
Chiusano Joseph wrote:
> I believe I lost the context for this one...why was it sent?
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> Joseph Chiusano
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> *From:* Frank McCabe [mailto:]
> *Sent:* Tue 4/5/2005 1:07 PM
> *To:*
> *Subject:* [soa-rm] IRC clients
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> IRC is the grand-daddy of all instant messaging, and so there is a vast
> range of clients for all platforms.
>
> If you google IRC client, your will see some of the choices. See
> (http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/) for a list of the better known
> clients.
>
> Personally, since I don't use Windows, I have no opinion on Windows
> clients.
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> For unix and for Mac OSX a good (if somewhat complicated to use) client
> is xchat and xchat-aqua respectively. xirc is also a good client for
> macs.
>
> Although there are many IRC clients, most fall down at the first
> corporate firewall. However, xchat knows about proxies and firewalls
> and can route round them -- using normal HTTP proxy settings.
>
> Frank
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