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From: shadow@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Matt Mosley)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: /summon command?
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content
Date: 30 Aug 92 23:19:54 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <BttHAD.DBK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> StarWatcher@uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Other than its not being operational right now?
>
>/summon is a nice idea, but IMO it isn't really necessary.  A couple of
>people send me talk requests and/or email when they want me to sign on
>to IRC.  It isn't as easy as /summon would be, but it works well enough
>as it is.

Ahh. I didn't understand that it wasn't working properly; I've never
seen any real use for it.  I just use email.

Matt


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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: /summon command?
Date: 30 Aug 92 06:57:41 GMT
Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

dprust@carroll1.cc.edu (Dan Prust) writes:
> gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Lord of the Third Truth) writes:
>>IUpholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
>>>well, here's a radical idea, have /summon check the CLIENTS connected from
>>>a specific host and use the CLIENT instead of the server to issue the 
>>>actual /summon.  
>>
>>*ungh*

>Wait a second, call me crazy, but if their client is running... why /summon?

Not their client.. but another client on the same host.
ie, bob@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu is running a client.. but I want to summon
bill@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu... if there is no server running on uxa, then 
why not allow the client that bob@uxa to notifiy bill@uxa that 
whoever@anywhere wants to speak with them on IRC?


>Seems to me that if you want to be radical, issue a /summon command and have
>it get the host name.  Exactly what is wrong (or so damn hard) with using
>another of the ports (extensive number of which can be used) to run a seperate
>summoning program?  It wouldn't be hard at all to write, really.  Have the
>client extract the name from nickserv and send a message to summon this person

The Idea above is intended to allow anyone with a client installed to summon
anyone who's host currently has EITHER a server or a client currently connected
to the IRC net.  The main problem with using a SEPERATE daemon is that it 
would need to be installed on EVERY machine... 

The Client is already intalled on every machine (well, almost anyway.. =)
so why not just include the summon daemon code in the client?  Sure it would
not always be running, but at a site with 10 or 12 users, the odds are good
that SOMEONE would be on IRC most of the time.
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: robin@ima.isc.com (Robin Gyver)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Keywords: gender
Organization: not much
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:25:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.140231.11357@umbc3.umbc.edu> gseidman@umbc4.umbc.edu (Jack of Shadows) writes:
>What can be done, however, is to use the built-in CTCP and /on commands
>in your .ircrc...  [so how about CTCP GENDER]

     Why not just teach people to put their gender and other
personal descriptions into the CTCP USERINFO request, which ircII
already supports?
From: justice@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joseph R. Justice)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: WANTED: LaTeX format version of the IRC Primer
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:00:51 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: alt
Organization: School of Engineering / Morgan State U. / Baltimore, MD

Hello.  I saw the recent post about the distribution of the IRC primer
in Postscript format.  I contacted the author of the primer to request
that he send me a copy of it in LaTeX format when and if he could.  He
told me that, before his access to the site his copy of the LaTeX
format primer was on was disabled, he had sent a few copies of the
LaTeX format primer out to some people.  Unfortunately, he had no
recollection of who these people were; he suggested that my best
option was to I post a request to alt.irc

If you have a copy of the IRC primer in LaTeX (NOT Postscript) format,
and would be willing to give me a copy of it (via e-mail, anonymous
FTP, IRC /dcc, or whatever), I would appreciate it greatly.  I would
appreciate it if you would send me a brief note first instead of just
sending the document; this way, I can hopefully get a copy from
someone "close" to me rather than halfway across the world.  It will
also insure that I don't get several copies of the same docuument.

In return for your generosity, I will resend a copy of what you send
me to everyone who sends me a request for the LaTeX format version of
the primer via electronic mail to my primary electronic mail address,
<justice@moeng2.morgan.edu>.  "Me too" requests posted to alt.irc or
other Usenet news groups will be cheerfully ignored.  I will also try
to get the csd.bu.edu IRC archives to install a copy of this version
of the primer in their archives.

Thank you for your help in this matter.  I appreciate your giving me a
moment of your time.

Joseph

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Reply-To: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:37:41 GMT

hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
(* on the topic of a gender flag *)
}I don't see any disadvantage, because many people pick gender-specific names
}already.  The examples you used (demi, saltgirl, thomas) are fairly obvious.
}For people who would like to remain unknown, they can simply not set the
}flag (have a default state of " ").  Those who are really paranoid can always
}mode -i.

 I'm not exactly known as paranoid, but at the same time, i really see
a need for it. Why a gender flag? So i can tell if you're male or female?
Why? Why can't i ASK you? Am i gonna speak to you different because you're
male?

 It's kinda useless, and totally unwieldly.

for instance, say i'm online. What's to stop me from execing a 
/mode +GF (gender Female)???

 Why bother?

mark, razorbone

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From: dprust@carroll1.cc.edu (Dan Prust)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: /summon command?
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:27:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3294
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI

In article <26522@life.ai.mit.edu> gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Lord of the Third Truth) writes:
>In article <BspC1J.7r0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
>>well, here's a radical idea, have /summon check the CLIENTS connected from
>>a specific host and use the CLIENT instead of the server to issue the 
>>actual /summon.  
>
>*ungh*

Wait a second, call me crazy, but if their client is running... why /summon?
Seems to me that if you want to be radical, issue a /summon command and have
it get the host name.  Exactly what is wrong (or so damn hard) with using
another of the ports (extensive number of which can be used) to run a seperate
summoning program?  It wouldn't be hard at all to write, really.  Have the
client extract the name from nickserv and send a message to summon this person,
if logged in.  I'd write it, but I'm trying to learn C++ right now, and don't
have the time.  Besides.  I don't know my way around the client that well.
I don't spend much time on IRC.  But you elite coderz, if you are truly
elite, write a simple program to listen through a port like 6668.  WHY must
we limit it to 6667?  

If a person doesn't have this summon daemon running, then you can't summon
them.  Very simple.   

Hell, the program would be small.  A small hack in the server code, a
small hack in the client code, and a small program to listen and summon.

Sheesh.
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Reply-To: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu
Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:30:50 GMT
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content

daz@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Dazza Primm) writes:
: suopanki@zombie.oulu.fi (Heikki Suopanki) writes:

: >We don't need more flags, the hetero/gay flag is enough!
: Which flag is that one?

Channel    Nickname  S   User@Host (Name)
#Twilight_ Mycroft   G   mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (!id Charles Hannum)
#Twilight_ Heiki     G*  hpiirai@cs.joensuu.fi (Heikki Piirainen)
#Twilight_ Supreme   H*@ sivbl@win4.vut.edu.au (I've been told I'm Warped. (
#Twilight_ Mauri     G*  mjh@stekt1.oulu.fi (Mauri Haikola)
#Twilight_ LumberJak G*  hrose@eff.org (I log all night and I log all day)
#Twilight_ steevie   G*@ sjl@melange.doc.ic.ac.uk (That's me in the corner...)
#Twilight_ Waftam    G*@ danielce@munagin.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel Carosone)
#Twilight_ tzoper    H*@ tzoper@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu (!id /msg tzoper help)
                     ^
                     ^
                     ^------ I think that's what Heikki was talking about.
			     I also think you missed the implied smiley!  :)

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:20:46 GMT

In <BtnqKz.6tA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dmd39855@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel M. DuBois) writes:

>How many of you guys greet other guys with: "hugz!" ?

  Yeah, but don't you feel like a bit of a turd typing "hugz" to some 
female you've never seen before either? Honestly folks, irc is a bit
much, but this "gender flag" concept has reallllly brought it out in
the open.
   The way I see it, the same fool who wants the gender flag wants to
be able to do a 
/who *female* so that he can annoy each and every one of the females trying
to pick up an 'ASCII-date'... Seems to me that irc is already becoming a 
hunk-o'-dung as #hotsex is the most populated channel...
   come on
steve
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:31:39 GMT
Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
Keywords: answers answers answers

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'

-Alex

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From: maillet@mistral.imag.fr (Eric Maillet st.J.M.Vincent)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: IRC from France ?
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:37:14 GMT
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France

Hi !

I am student in Grenoble France and want to use IRC. We don't have an IRC server
at our university. I have to log on the account of a friend in the UK to
get IRC : this is annoying because it is rather slow over that distance...

What can I do ?

Thanks for any hint !!!!

Eric.

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: irc on Macs... PLEASE READ THIS!
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:09:05 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

In <Vandell-260892154635@129.59.16.47> Vandell@macpost.vanderbilt.edu writes:

>  > Version 1.0 will be out in 1-2 weeks, hopefully.
>  
>  will it have /dcc?

At least it should have :-)
That is one of the things I'm currently working at. I suppose it
will work by 1.0, but no promise.

MfG,
        Olaf
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: look@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (ken loo)
Subject: irc addresses
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:44:49 GMT

hellow, does anyone have irc addresses to share?
I am not a regular on this group, so emailing me direct
would be a great help.
thanks lots.
look@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Ken
.


Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: daz@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Dazza Primm)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 05:59:21 GMT

suopanki@zombie.oulu.fi (Heikki Suopanki) writes:

>We don't need more flags, the hetero/gay flag is enough!
Which flag is that one?

>-Heikki
Daz.

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From: vreddy@husc3.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: irc on Macs... PLEASE READ THIS!
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:59:05 EDT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Sorry if this is an FAQ or something, but does anyone know if there is a
MAC protocol for irc... you know.. like there are MAIL protocols so that
an AppleTalk connection lets me check my mail with an icon like a regular
MAC application... Is there something like that for irc? Something in
development? Anyone wanna give me a tip on how to write one if there aren't
any already? Thanks... 

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Newsgroups: decr.chat,ee.chat,alt.irc
From: grebo@ecr.mu.oz.au (Katherine_Louise WRIGHT)
Subject: Re: Its all TheCure's fault
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:28:11 GMT

In article <bevan.714793216@sungear> bevan@mame.mu.OZ.AU (Bevan Anderson) writes:
>
>Its ALL TheCure's fault !!!!!

Got the TSHIRT to prove it

>
>Now.. how do you spell WASTED!?
>
>Bevan..


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From: Ernie
Subject: summon
Reply-To: jont@cs.su.oz.au
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:11:07 GMT

In article <Bttvs4.3K8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) wrote:

[ ... ]

| The Other reason I proposed implementing it in the client is that clients
| are found on almost every machine that people IRC from (ie, the machines
| that you would want to /summon someone from).  Currently, you can only
| summon people from machines that have *SERVERS* on them... (and we all
| know that there are already way too many servers on the net).
Sounds like you want to get peoples clients to do teh work of the talk daemon,
it seems sensible to just use talk/1 and use that to summon (mail could be
a little slow for summoning) ?

| But... it seems that nobody is interested in /summon working as easliy
| as talk(1) requests... Oh well... it was just an idea to kick around anyway.
Klaus Zeuge posted an item about a separate interent program for
sending messages ... [ refer to RFC1159 and any updates ]

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Zell)
Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
Keywords: answers answers answers
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:50:29 GMT

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

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: Doug's House of Disco
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:21:11 GMT
X-Posted-From: dopey.cc.utexas.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <Btvx25.362@news.cso.uiuc.edu> StarWatcher@uiuc.edu writes:

>Well, #hotsex IS one of the busiest channels on the net....  :)

On #hotsex, you will find newbies, hackers, mass kickers, kick wars, mass
bannings, flooders, jerks, dorks, bots, friends, lovers, splits, and Elvis
was even spotted there once.

But you won't find hotsex there :)
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
Subject: Re: Smallest UNIX IRC Client
Organization: Doug's House of Disco
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:34:45 GMT
X-Posted-From: dopey.cc.utexas.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Green (I forget his address ... I *think* it was written by Green, a regular
on the #hack channel ...) wrote one called sock.tar, that the source is 
6k compressed I think :)

It's barely a step about raw irc ... but hey, it works :)

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- The end of the thread.
Reply-To: rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:28:49 GMT

In article <9209010502.AA11406@moeng2.morgan.edu>
	demi@MOENG2.MORGAN.EDU (Demi Greene) writes:
>The gender flag option does NOT have to be a "sex thing" -- it can be whatever
>you need it to be, and, ideally, it can be "switched off" if you don't find 
>it useful, find it offensive/annoying, or whatever, so that not only are you 
>not employing that extra character MFN, but you *don't see it* either: for you,
>it would be as if it were not there.

Personally, I think its a good idea, especially considering the above.
I like to hang out on the asian channels because I have an interest in
asian culture, language and people.  But I'll be damned if I can
figure out who's a man and who's a woman!  It's not just about sex,
but it *is* about knowing what kind of person you're talking to.  If I
talk to someone over the phone, I can usually tell their gender and
ditto goes for RL conversations with people face-to-face.  I don't see
any reason not to advertise one's gender on IRC if one is comfortable
with it.  I don't think people would object to the idea of a picture
for each nick (assuming that the bandwidth, etc., were there to
support it), which would certainly give away not only gender but some
rendition of physical appearance.

							-- Rich
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: Doug's House of Disco
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:40:38 GMT
X-Posted-From: dopey.cc.utexas.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Oh come on ... why do we need gender flags ?

Why don't we have preference flags too ? Hell, we could have things like :
  
      @*HSWMHUSV - VT100 terminal
      ||||||||\- Sun Sparcstatio
      |||||||\- Unix
      ||||||\- Horny
      |||||\- Male
      ||||\- White
      |||\- Single
      \\\- the old standbys ...


I don't see any reason to do this sort of thing, unless we want to replace
IRC with Internet Dial-Your-Match #69 ...

If you really feel the need for people to know that you're female, I think
(female) in your name field would do it :) (if you LIKE getting messaged by
50 horny guys ...)
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