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From: carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (Carl_Ivan BREWER)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
Keywords: answers answers answers
Date: 30 Aug 92 01:26:01 GMT
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.

superman, or whatever you call yourself ....

Sorry to shatter your generalisations about irc'ers, but here goes ..

Many of us (in Australia, I cannot speak for the rest of the world)
do actually meet eachother.  We go for lunches every few weeks,
indeed, I personally have made about 8 new friends directly through
irc.  These people are what I consider good friends, and irc has been 
the sole reason I met them.  We use irc to keep in touch, and to help
eachother.  I doubt that I will "grow out of it", just as I will
not grow out of writing people letters (snail mail) or using the 
phone.  Irc is for me, and many friends of mine, a damn good way to
keep in touch.  It is not a haven for socially inept reclusives (well,
exept for Avalon!! (sorry mate, I had too :) )).  We use it as you would
use a telephone,  exept that you can't do a smiley on the phone, and 
std rates to Sydney and Perth are rather prohibitive!!

I assure you, that *my* feet are firmly planted in reality,  are yours ???

cheers

carl 


 Annal  Natrach, Usthvah Spethed,         carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (IRC: Bleve)
 Dochoel Dienve                           carl@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
					  carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU
 Merlin, where are you?  Call your dragon, to weave a mist...
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: a8jb@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (G. Youssef EE)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:11:23 GMT

In article <SUOPANKI.92Sep2171600@zombie.oulu.fi> suopanki@phoenix.oulu.fi writes:

>>We don't need more flags, the hetero/gay flag is enough!
>Dazza> Which flag is that one?
>
>who #42 shows:
>
>H@        #42       vmp <vmp@phoenix.oulu.fi>        Vesa M. Perttunen
>H@        #42      tero <tero@vehka.cs.uta.fi>       Tero Saarimaa
>H@        #42     Petri <pete@fidata.fi>             Petri Helenius
>H@        #42     Frank <ojala@dolphin.funet.fi>     Petri Ojala
>H@        #42      Mari <zarr@vipunen.hut.fi>        Mari (Cougar) Sepp{
>H*@        #42      Jita <jita@dena.ttl.fi>           Marko Katajisto
>H*@        #42  ele_away <elendil@Polaris.cc.utu.fi>  Kimmo Murto
>H@        #42     Arska <aiv@cardhu.cs.hut.fi>       Arska V{ijy
>G*@        #42  nAm_AwAy <kny@cardhu.cs.hut.fi>       Kim Nyberg
>G@        #42  kts_away <kts@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi>    Kari Tapani Syd{nmaanlakk\
>a
>G@        #42 noop_work <pno@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi>    Pasi Nousiainen
>
>You can see nam_away, kts_away and noop_work are gays, rest are heteros.

HHhahahahahahahaaa!!!!!!!!  Ever read any documentation on IRC?  Sheesh!
The H and G flags do NOT stand for Heteros and gays.  They stand for "H"ere
and "G"one (ie. they have an /AWAY up).  I've never been on #42 so unless
they are using this flag to represent their sexual status on this particular
channel, the H and G flags are not what you think they are.  

Wizard

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher)
Subject: Re: /summon command?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Reply-To: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu
Organization: Actuarial Science Program at UIUC
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:03:47 GMT
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content

shadow@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Matt Mosley) writes:

: I agree. It would be a *very* bad idea.  What's the problem with the current
: implementation, anyway?

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.

--
Michael Adams (aka StarWatcher)            "A converted cannibal is one who,
StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (NeXT & internet)      on Friday, eats only fishermen."
wi.5467@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anonymous)             -- Emily Lotney
FREE1217@UIUCVMD.bitnet (bitnet)                                               
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Subject: Re: /summon command?
Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:16:37 GMT

jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes
>> Not their client.. but another client on the same host.

>Doesn't sound to me like that would fall within the bounds of what a  
>client does.  Also, since there would be no way to turn this messaging off  
>(like you can turn talk and write requests off via "mesg n" or "chmod go-w  
>`tty`") it might be better if the summoning went through mail.

The Original Idea I had was that it would user writes to the tty...
(ie, if they *DO* 'mesg n' or 'chmod go-w `tty`' then they summon
would fail with the usuall 'This user seems to have disabled summoning'
message).

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).

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.
-- 
The Upholder of Truth		  	    I am not only ready to
Upholder@uiuc.edu (BSD/ASCII mail)          retract this, but also
jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail)    deny I said anything.  =)
wi.4173@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anon. mail)   This is *NOT* CCSO's opinion.
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
Keywords: answers answers answers
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:20:27 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


I only have one thing to say about this:

All of IRC is not #hotsex.  Do not judge everyone who uses IRC by the
actions of a fraction of its users.

-- 
 \   Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
 /\  White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: ins818e@mdw045.cc.monash.edu.au (Pratap Patnaikuni)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: Monash University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:01:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.034038.10119@ctr.columbia.edu> dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:


>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 ...)

You mean sickly desperate. (-;

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                                     pratap@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au 
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        never took the time to dream we'd never find an answer.   
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: a8jb@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (G. Youssef EE)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:31:33 GMT

In article <9224711.3154@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (Carl_Ivan BREWER) writes:

>>channel, the H and G flags are not what you think they are.  
>
>
>gosh, _really_  and everyone thought it was geniune ...
>
>hey wiz, get a sense of humour mate ...

Yeah yeah yeah, okay people, so I'm slow... Sheesh!  I posted it late or
early in the morning so I have an excuse. :-P

Wizard 
>
>
>
> Annal  Natrach, Usthvah Spethed,         carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (IRC: Bleve)
> Dochoel Dienve                           carl@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
>					  carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU
> Merlin, where are you?  Call your dragon, to weave a mist...
From: Christopher Baker
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: IRC Server and Client for Xenix
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:58:33 GMT
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois


I am looking for an IRC Server and Client that will
run on SCO Xenix.  I have only seen version available
for BSD and nothing for V.  Does anyone know where
I can find a sysV version and has anyone installed it
on SCO Xenix? 
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: kkr42091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (QUEEN ZENOBIA!)
Subject: Re: Thecure apology (part I)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:40:30 GMT

mta@cs.tut.fi (J{rvinen Markku) writes:

>>>>>> On Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:02:57 GMT, oysteint@ifi.uio.no (\ystein Tvedten) said:
>\ystein> #hotsex is the most stupid, idiotic and braindead channel on IRC, except maybe
>\ystein> for #42

>What is wrong with #42, I kinda like it.

>	- mta
>-- 

People who dont like channels like #42 just dont understand what is going on.
Especially in the case of #42 , where the langauge being spoken is finnish..
and all those who dont speak finnish automatically assume that it gives them
the right to be rude to the people on the channel.... Then you have the people
who say that they only let finns talk... well that is wrong... cuz i do get op
status as though i were a finn... so kindly nix that opinion.

So in the case of #hotsex channel [although i have never been on it... whatever
they do there is their prerogative....if you dont like it leave... start your 
own channel.]

When you have as many people from around the world... there are bound to be
at least some idiots and a lot of intolerant people...  If you were female
you would at least get used to people being that way... cuz everytime a 
female gets on irc people hit on her... not every person but a enough that
you have to become patient enough to tell people to f*** off before killing
them...

So peeps.... either get a life and become more tolerant or getting a bloddy 
sense of humour.

-kimberli
From: demi@MOENG2.MORGAN.EDU (Demi Greene)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:30:31 GMT



I wasn't sure exactly where I should go with ideas for IRC, but this
seemed as good a place as any to start.  So, here's my proposal.

Does anyone like the idea of a 'gender flag' to show up in the 'S' part
of a /who listing?  For example:

/gender female
 and
/gender male
would produce 'F' or 'M' -->

Channel    Nickname  S    User@Host (Name)
#example   saltgirl  H@F  saltgirl@rever.NMSU.Edu (That one girl)
#example   demi      H@F  demi@moeng2.morgan.edu (Demi Greene)
#example   Thomas    @*M  jkf677@netcom.COM.edu (!id Thomas the Great)


Of course, people would take extreme advantage of this, and pretend to
be the opposite gender, etc, but it seems like a useful and fun 
feature regardless.  Thoughts?

   

  ~ Demi


.....................................................................
Demi Elizabeth Greene                          demi@moeng2.morgan.edu
.....................................................................
.....................................................................

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Darkman)
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:51:15 GMT

a8jb@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (G. Youssef EE) writes:

>In article <SUOPANKI.92Sep2171600@zombie.oulu.fi> suopanki@phoenix.oulu.fi writes:

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

>HHhahahahahahahaaa!!!!!!!!  Ever read any documentation on IRC?  Sheesh!
>The H and G flags do NOT stand for Heteros and gays.  They stand for "H"ere
>and "G"one (ie. they have an /AWAY up).  I've never been on #42 so unless
>they are using this flag to represent their sexual status on this particular
>channel, the H and G flags are not what you think they are.  
>Wizard

uh, wizard dude....  I guess you couldn't see a joke if it walked up and bit you
on the ass. :)
-- 
___________________________________________________________.
|   Daryn Sharp    /\ University of Illinois /\ Engineering |
| Darkman@uiuc.edu \/    Champaign-Urbana    \/  CS Major   | 
!___________________________________________________________!
From: flong@cse.ucsc.edu (Nobody)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: "Gender Flags" -- for lack of a better term.
Date: 26 Aug 1992 02:36:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.ucsc.edu

In article <9208260030.AA14936@moeng2.morgan.edu> demi@MOENG2.MORGAN.EDU (Demi Greene) writes:
.....
>Does anyone like the idea of a 'gender flag' to show up in the 'S' part
>of a /who listing?  For example:
>
>/gender female
> and
>/gender male
>would produce 'F' or 'M' -->

... don't think that would be PC... how about

	/set gender on

for "people of gender", and

	/set gender off

for those other people who don't yet have a gender...

FL
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: hudel@waterloo.hp.com (Chris Hudel)
Subject: Re: Smallest UNIX IRC Client
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:21:09 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard (Panacom Division)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Kai Keinanen (keinanen@tre.tele.nokia.fi) wrote:
: Maybe irchat.el, which takes about 130k when uncompressed. The
: compressed tar files are about 60 k. It requires GNU Emacs, though. 
:                                                  ^^^^^^^^^
      And we all know how *small* gnu emacs is, eh? :-)

--
                                                         Chris Hudel
business: hudel@waterloo.hp.com                         519/883-3080
pleasure: chudel@watarts.waterloo.edu             
(Pleasure forwards to business...)       - all comments are mine, not HP's -
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 04:36:41 CDT
From: <U56933@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: I REQUEST RESPONSES TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION...
 <1992Aug29.233043.12716@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <avalon.715160593@coombs>

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! :)
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: UIUC Actuarial Science Program
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:39:30 GMT
Keywords: significant words from a document used as an index to content

franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:

: Seems to me that irc is already becoming a 
: hunk-o'-dung as #hotsex is the most populated channel...

I don't know if #hotsex by itself qualifies IRC as a hunk-o-dung,
but there certainly seem to be more and more net.geeks on the net
all the time....  Considering the number of lusty lusers that /msg
me wondering "WHAT GENDER R U?" and attempting to make other annoying
conversation, I can't help but wonder how female users would survive
without /ignore....

On a related topic, I spotted the first UIUC freshman I've seen this 
year on IRC today (the first day of classes here).  He had made his
way over to #hotsex.... Ah, I can see the grades sliding in the
class of '96 already....

Would there be any way to limit maximum time online per session for
non-server opers in IRC-3?  ;-)
--
Michael Adams / StarWatcher

sig undergoing reconstructive surgery...
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson)
Subject: Question about IRC access.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:22:39 GMT

Here's the familiar story:

I have a friend who has access to a VM machine which is on
the InterNet.  However, there is no IRC client installed,
nor do I think she has the storage capacity for compiling
and storing binaries.

So...  How is it possible for the two of us to chat?

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

  Scotty AJ
Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery
From: mespinos@kirk.NMSU.Edu (Michael C Espinosa)
Subject: Valkor's reply
Keywords: NoMondays, NoMore?
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:19:16 GMT


greetings, fellow comrade/enemy/powerdude/fierceman/andrew,
hey, you can't leave now....

the party is just starting....hehehe

dare to return....

unless you are too weak for my power...as i suspected all along..hehe

*classic air guitar*

if your serious though, dude

good luck in the future, and it was nice knowing ya.

visualize world peace
and all that jazz....
word
excellent
%)
Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Subject: 8 months!
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:29:07 GMT

... and counting. I love it.
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery
Subject: Re: 8 months!
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:30:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia

In article <tsh.715421069@vipunen.hut.fi> tsh@lesti.hut.fi (Timo Hyv|nen) writes:

>Still counting?

Well, I have 10 fingers and 10 toes, so I can count quite high. If I
didn't have friends who still use IRC, I might foget about it totally,
but I do have these friends, so...
Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery,alt.irc
From: cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar)
Subject: Re: That's it, I'm finished
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:40:57 GMT

sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Steve J Lacey) writes:
>appeared and more or less has been A Good Thing (tm) Ok, so I'm not
>the sort of person that gets hooked on #hotsex or #bondage (apart from
>for a laugh)

These groups don't deserve to be grouped together, and #bondage is not
"for a laugh" in the way that #hotsex, #hottub, etc. are.  It is a
serious group, the IRC analogue of alt.sex.bondage on Usenet, with
many of the same people participating.  #bondage is always MODE +in,
to prevent it from becoming a free-for-all full of people with no
clue what the channel is about.

  --  Cos (Ofer Inbar)  --  cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
  --  WBRS (BRiS)  --  WBRS@binah.cc.brandeis.edu  WBRS@brandeis.bitnet
        Real life?  Which channel is that on?
Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery
From: aldavi01@romulus.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: 26 days...
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:18:25 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

26 days and counting.

Boy do I feel better.

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Subject: Re: That's it, I'm finished
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:18:13 GMT

In article <ads3.3@PO.CWRU.Edu> ads3@PO.CWRU.Edu (Andrew D. Shults) writes:
>
>     This is it.  I've decided to quit.

Good for you. You won't regret it.
Newsgroups: alt.irc.recovery
From: tsh@lesti.hut.fi (Timo Hyv|nen)
Subject: Re: 8 months!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date:  2 Sep 92 08:04:29 GMT

In <1992Sep1.172907.11431@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>.... and counting. I love it.

Still counting?

It really is a problem for you, eh?

-- 
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Xref: sparky alt.activism:15765 talk.politics.misc:43077
From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Subject: Re: "Lies Work"
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:09:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.233852.3614@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>As long as the phrase contains "by the criteria the Bush people use",
>the claim of 327 is truthful.

No it is not. According to the Congressional Research Service the
number for Bush (using the same criteria) is 78, not the 327
claimed by Clinton.

>The Bush people aren't even pretending to be honest.

As opposed to Clinton who lies while pretending to be honest?

    Allen

-- 
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|  aws@iti.org     |  put a man on the Moon?"                               |
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From: dredish+@cs.cmu.edu (David Redish)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.environment,alt.save.the.earth,misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: BUSH: The "Energy President" (I)
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:24:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Btytwq.4D6.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Sep01.221302.2565@anomaly.sbs.risc.net> kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator) writes:
>
>>Reduction in Department of Energy budget for 
>>        renewable energy between 1981 and 1989: 90%  <========== 
>
>So, you would support increased funding for the establishment of nuclear
>power generators throughout the US?
>
>--  Michael P. Deignan                      / Sex is hereditary. If your 

In fact, Federal subsidies for nuclear power plants went UP during the
first few years of the Reagan era. ('81 or '82 -- it was in the same
budget that did most of the slashing of $ to research in renewable 
energy sources (mostly wind and solar and hydro) that Harel is refering to.)

During this same time the process for applying for permission to build
a nuclear power plant was "simplified" and made significantly easier.

david redish
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines