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From: gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: *die* monitor.ece.uiuc.edu
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:25:16 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <9220819.18246@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure) writes:
>Can someone explain "exactly" why monitor.ece.uiuc.edu is on the net.
>
>Apparently it's just to take stats. This is easily done with an automated bot.

It is?  Would you care to write the aforementioned automated bot?  A
server will automatically receive all appropriate messages; all the
monitor code has to do is to receive it.  The same is not true for
a bot.

>I am only whinging, cause it hangs when you try and do any server stuff with it.
>
>(ie - /stats L monitor.ece.uiuc.edu does nothing.)

It doesn't hang; the message is transmitted.  Only monitor doesn't
care, so it sends no messages back.  Ever telnetted to a server,
pretending to be a server yourself, and send /notify messages back
to people who /trace you?  Quite interesting, actually.  One has
to be a fast typist - or a good programmer.  However, that is a
side note - monitor is  just a receptacle for messages, it has no
reason to respond.

Gwydion.
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ?
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:38:03 GMT
Organization: Aston University

andrewb@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bucknell) writes:
: Well. Sachz seems to think this file is a 'classic'. But then sachz has 
: a weird sense of humor. Judge for yourself. I am posting this at 
: his request cause he seems to think you will all get a kick out of it.
: 
: Basically what happened here is I got suckered in to beliveing Mr Sachz
: was a girl. I hope you all find it as amusing as sachz and freddie and
: various others have :)

Look so long as they choose one gender and stick to it throughout a session
then what is the problem?

If they keep changing their gender every few minutes then they are just being
a jerk use the ignore command (or moan at your client coder if it isn't fitted)

There is no way you can tell what gender someone on IRC really is, unless
you are in the same room as them.

Go look up the original version of 'Turing test'.
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
Subject: Re: The shit (server upgrade).
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 08:00:53 GMT
Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...

buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen) was telling me...
>
>It was not a complain. It was a suggestion. Nothing more.
>It seems that one must put a label on every word these days.
>(or else someone can sue me :-))
>

Well from the subject line of the thread, it sure SEEMS like a complaint
to me.

-Alex

-- 
|  John E. Tarbotton		|       jtarbott@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU 
| Cal Poly State Univ		|    
| San Luis Obispo, CA  93407	|
From: Da-Hogman@cup.portal.com (HOGAN DEAN WHITTALL)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: JizShit
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 01:24:38 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Screw you, Adam.  People like you don't belong on IRC.  Why don't you go
back to your yuppie office and live your yuppie life.  People like you make
me laugh.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Subject: Re: Bug...I hope you fixed it cause here it is!
Organization: Youngstown State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:32:44 GMT

paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
: 
: >	Hopefully now some more people will get off their butts.
: 
: Yup, perhaps it's time to delete irc from our systems.  Still the bug
: only affects irc users so what the hey?
: 
Well, I made the "switch"... and found that after the initial messages,
there's a 10-15 second pause before the server will accept another command,
then I get dumped with all of stacked command responses at once.

Is this another new "feature" of 2.7.2g ?  It didn't happen on 2.7.2c.
--
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
doug@cc.ysu.edu	   doug@ysub.bitnet	<internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug
Family Values: the sexist, racist, homophobic, classist, "Christian" values
of the 50's.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ? DON"T READ THIS
Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:32:16 GMT

franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:

>>>Then there's the ever possible newsgroup
>>>alt.jackass.who.thinks.he.is.respected
>>More respected than you, at least.  But then, who isn't?
>   Ahaha... Matt Hucke, can I introduce you to this lovely place called
>reality? More respected than me on alt.irc doesn't mean a damn thing. 
>But, as I point out, only one of us cares, and it is most certainly
>no me. 

Then why in the H*LL did you reply to his post if you don't care?
Or is it *BECAUSE* you don't care?

If you're so worried about bandwidth (BOTH of you), take it to email already.
-- 
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.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
Subject: Re: Thecure apology (part I)
Organization: Doug's House of Disco
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:17:32 GMT
X-Posted-From: dopey.cc.utexas.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <avalon.714518078@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:

>Actually, whether it is or not is debateable.
>Perhaps its not a very curteous thing to do (flies in the face of
>'established' netequitte).

Mass kicking is generally considered 'rude' :)

>I also heard stories of lots of people doing MODE hacks to get chanop back
>on #hotsex. They fucked up too and if there was a log there'd be more guilty
>people than thecure.

Shall I post logs of it ? :)
Besides ... mode 'hacks' are relative ... a perfectly legitimate op to me
may not be recognized in .au ... and TheCure was most definately hacking ops,
not to 'fix' a channel, but to mess with it ... (with cures like this, who
needs diseases?)

>>Yes, you're right!  You won't be visiting that channel again.  Because if 
>>we happen to see your face on there, there are at least half a dozen ppl that
>>would be overjoyed to kick you and ban you. 

Yup.  I did it.  (Found TheCure on the channel, and kicked him ...)
Scott's new mass kick/ban bots were promptly sent to the channel. Of course,
they used this nifty little hack Avalon told the entire world about to get op.
So I kicked and banned Scott and bots (after they mass kicked ...) and soon
found that my links to my server kept dropping, over and over ...

So who's hacking now ?

(In thecure's defense, he didn't do any mass kicks or anything like that ...
he just messaged me like I was nuts for kicking and banning him, and said
he wasn't doing it 'now', so I let him back on ... but he then soon left.)

>Well I always wondered if #hotsex really was the centre of all low life
>on IRC, I guess this confirms any doubts held by anyone.

Puhleez ...

I imagine if somebody managed to deop everybody on #hack or #twilight_zone,
it wouldn't last for long ...


-- 
The opinions stated above are mine (and quite possibly mine alone!)  However,
 for a brief time, and a nominal fee, they can be yours too.  Operators are 
standing by! Call Now! DouG McLareN, dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, DemoN on IRC.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: u883449@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Cheryl Anne Vincent)
Subject: IRC & Work Groups (re-posted)
Organization: University of Tasmania , Australia
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:58:45 GMT

Can IRC be used as a medium for work group communication?

As part of my Masters Degree I want to look at how students can take more 
control of their learning environments by estalblishing collegiate work 
groups or network amongst themselves.

At the moment I am conducting a case study amongst 30 Graduate Social Science
students at the University of Tasmania.  As part of this study I am looking
at the differences between how groups perform on a given task (in this case 
 the development of a data base) under different communication conditions.

Ten individuals make up the first group that use conventional methods to
communicate (i.e talking face-to-face, memos, groups meetings)  Group two
consists of ten individuals who will use strictly computer mediated 
communication (i.e E-mail, Talk, IRC) amongst themselves.  The final ten
people will work by themselves as individuals and as such they can use
whatever method of communcation they wish to 'talk' with each other.

I want to discover if there are any major differences in productivity and
group dynamics when conventional communication methods are used and when
computer mediated communication is utialised.

I am also hoping to discover if there are any problems with either method.
 If so what they are how they can be overcome, and if there is an effective
 way that these methods can be combined to produce an effective work group
 organisation that is not only productive but collegiate as well.

To add to the case study that I am looking at here at utas I would also like
to hear from any people who regularly use IRC as a way to communicate with a
work/study partner of group, or who would be interested in using IRC as a
communication medium in a future project to be completed soon.

If there is anyone interested in being involved in a case study of this
nature would they contact me and I will send them more information on my
Thesis and what I would like them to do as part of the study I am conducting.

Cheryl Vincent

(Liahona on IRC)
From: gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Say what?  (was Re: *** Closing Link: DemoN...)
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:26:48 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <0t6mv8g.aiken@netcom.com> aiken@netcom.com (The Nonborn King) writes:
>>>having it show up and work like a "Bad link?" or "Write error", and it is
>>
>>... an ICMP bomb thanx to Aiken.
>
>Uh, excuse me?  I don't even know _how_ to do an ICMP bomb, although I 
>understand the theory.  Why do you think I did it?


I think what he meant was that it is called an ICMP bomb
thanks to you - you named it.

Gwydion
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 13:31:03 CDT
From: LINDA GEHARD <U43405@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ?
 <1992Aug21.093803.21920@aston.ac.uk>

methinks u missed the point of this post....try again..

===============================================================================
"These opinions are all mine.......so HANDS OFF!!"

Linda Gehard
u43405@uicvm.uic.edu
irc: Marie1 (The one, the ONLY!)

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: ckane@ece.uiuc.edu (Chuck Kane)
Subject: Re: *die* monitor.ece.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:52:34 GMT

thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure) writes:
>gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) writes:
>>thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure) writes:
>>>Can someone explain "exactly" why monitor.ece.uiuc.edu is on the net.
>>>Apparently it's just to take stats. This is easily done with an automated bot.
>>It is?  Would you care to write the aforementioned automated bot?
>Yes, I would care to write the aforementioned bot. Wait, hang about.
>I have. Silly me, it was so trivial I forgot. It's been used by avalon
>and phone now for a while, and I post the odd stat thing here from it as were..

>What wrong with getting the bot to do this..

>[1] nick statbot
>[2] user blah blah blah blah
>[3] links * *
>[4] (collect all the links)
>[5] search for '*' in the collection
>[6] links '*.whatever' '*.whatever'   (ie - do a links from the the machine *)
>[7] repeat from 4 until no more '*' in the collection

This is not what monitor does.  This is what SvrLstBot does.

Gwydion is right -- without working S: lines it is not possible for a client
to receive the messages that monitor needs (even with S: lines it may not
be possible).

Also, at one time, there was a server which had a "*" in its name.



thecure@ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure) writes:
>"so it sends no messages back" - Duh - I forgot, I am meant to be 
>psychic ain't I? Like, when I say "Do you do anything" , and I
>don't get anything back, it's stupid of me to think that it's hanging
>right? I mean, shit, where do I get off thinking that it has worked
>when there is NO visable evidence it has. (like, umm, oh christ,
>it's not even worth bothering to explain this one. - If you killed
>someone because they were idle (ie - THEY DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE DOING
>ANYTHING) - I spose that "would be justified"?

Monitor responds to at least
	/trace monitor.*
	/admin monitor.*
	/version monitor.*

Aren't these the typical commands we use to find out information about
a server if we don't know anything about it?  I thought so.....
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen)
Subject: Re: The shit (server upgrade).
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:29:05 GMT

Tom Kovar writes:
>buboo@taxus.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen) writes:

[ My rambling deleted ]

>  Keep cool, Ruben. Do you want to join those who like to forget IRC is just
>a toy? I've thought it be your opinion, too. Hvis du vil kjempe mot dumheten,
>du skulle ikke slutte deg til denne kretsen...

Always cool ... :-)
IRC is just a toy, but I want my toy to be tested. If I have a toy for 
my 7 months little girl I want it to be safe... :-)

Vell, jeg kjemper ikke mot dumheten. Ble bare litt lei av det hele... :-)
Ikke noe mer...  La de dumme v{re dumme i fred...
Jeg lover og v{re snill gutt heretter... OK ?

Forresten, vi tar bildet i morgen tenker jeg, s} scanner jeg det inn
og sender det ned til ITC.

Opps... sorry folks... forgot that there are people around that do
not speak Norwegian ... Just got carried away...

\Ruben.

-- 
        Ove Ruben R Olsen a Gnarfer and VI user. EMAIL: ruben@uib.no. 
     Maintaining the EX/VI-archive and a couple of the Comp.Editors FAQs.
    People that are ignorant tend to live a frustrated life, at least when 
     it comes to editing - But I do belive this is a general rule in life
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: vjaed@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Servers
Reply-To: vjaed@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:39:43 GMT

How do you use servers.  Everyone that I try to use except csd.bu.edu says that
I'm not authorized for access?

Help!!!

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: shopov@ee.su.oz.au (Sacha Shopov)
Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ? DON"T READ THIS
Reply-To: shopov@ee.su.oz.au (Sacha Shopov)
Organization: Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 09:15:35 GMT

*tsk* guys, guys, guys.... (term used loosely - so not to confuse magen :-))

The original post was logged some time ago, and was posted to alt.irc to share
with who wanted to read it. It already propagated by hand for some time.

I check new news to see:

> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
>>franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>>> hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:
>>>> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:

... and who knows who else slinging into person attacks on each other.
I dont know who they are, and it has little to do with the original
subject header. Can we please take it elsewhere so this thread can 
die please... and let by buddy Magen (heya mate..err, umm) rest [RIP]. :)

sachz

ps. wants to hear from Freddie *hint hint* cause he was co-instigator ofdalog.
pps. note carefully in the log, I acted only with the tide and thats my excuse:)

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Servers and clients and software oh my!
Organization: VideOcart Inc.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:06:50 GMT

Hi folks,

We're on the Internet with a capital "I", and looking for both a server
connection and the current sources.  

I have old musty sources for both server and client, but obviously those
would be obsolete by now ;-)

Pointers appreciated.

--
Karl Denninger 		Inet:  kdenning@hq.videocart.com
VideOcart Inc.		Voice: (312) 987-5022
From: mattm@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Matt Mosley)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Servers and clients and software oh my!
Date: 15 Aug 92 02:54:46 GMT
Distribution: alt.irc
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

You can get the current client and server from csd.bu.edu via anonymous
ftp, /irc/clients and /irc/servers.

--Matt
From: armando@hp9k.lag.itesm.mx (Armando Ibarra Medina)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: kjjd
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:54:34 GMT

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From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ? DON"T READ THIS
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:14:37 GMT

In <BtCMA7.L42@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:

>>But, as I point out, only one of us cares, and it is most certainly
>>not me. 

>Then why in the H*LL did you reply to his post if you don't care?
>Or is it *BECAUSE* you don't care?

Because I find this fun. I find you funny. This is priceless entertainment,
that easily surpasses any sort of pseudo-relationships you strive to
form throughout your many eons on irc. 
   Upholder, I argue that you find it hard to find the rift between irc
and reality, and I certainly know this is the case with matt hucke. 
I show little concern for my social status on irc, as you may well know.
Mainly, because I feel that _social_ and _irc_ in the same sentence is a 
paradox.
   Please, try and get out into the sun a bit more?

steve
-- 
aasdSteveFranklin-Subliminal Psychology Major.ks;dlasBlueJaysRULEkasdfeahsdbfl
sd;lfaswoq[eBuyMeAQuadra!!!mbnZMXCNdfsba;KdSPAMiuroqiyetIBMSuxiweuryth'ewr;mxn
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zx.cfranklin@ug.cs.dal.ca,sk;t;lrut[Superboy@ac.dal.cav.zx,Physics!eq3rwkh;oHA
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Subject: Re: *** Closing Link: DemoN[dopey.cc.utexas.edu] DemoN (Bad link?)
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 13 Aug 92 02:14:10 GMT

evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:

>dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:
>: 
>: One more thing ... the server's themselves don't seem to be crashing.
>: It's very selective ... I can be on the same server as someone else, and I get
>: Bad linked and not them :)

>This is most odd the errors you mention are usually associated with
>the connection being closed.

>Unless someone is able to affect the tcp link, in which case time
>to call in CERT then nothing other than crashing the server springs
>to mind.

Those people who experience these problems should hassle the vendor of
the machine they are using to fix the problem (its a kernel problem).

For those on SunOS machines, check with your admin to see if they applied
the patches from the last CERT notice which delt with this problem.

But that only solves the problem at one end...and the link can be told to
close on most OS's at any time of day whether it has been up for hours or
minutes.

For those who are IRCing from machines running server versions later than
2.7.2b, ask your server admin if they have a unix socket setup to allow
client connections and use that (requires patches to 2.1.5 clients for
this, however).

avalon
From: gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Lord of the Third Truth)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Server request
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:49:34 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Aug12.194058.14261@ctr.columbia.edu> dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren) writes:

>Cool ... the first UUCP server :)


have they gotten through the inital server burst yet?
From: gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Lord of the Third Truth)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: hacking servers to kill people.
Date: 13 Aug 92 01:57:48 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

Demon wrote something to this effect:
>It APPEARS that somebody on #hack has discovered a way to kill
>people (mentioning this to some people, and FourDee's name comes up ...),

I believe the problem lies with the hermes server.
Of course, there might be other servers with the
same problem...

Gwydion.
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Subject: Re: More flooding from santafe [1/2] ...
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 18:36:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug3.165020.16152@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:

>A small question, what does the command /stats santafe.edu C return?
*** C *** No such server.
As it should.  ;)

	ian
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: oysteint@ifi.uio.no (\ystein Tvedten)
Subject: Re: Is sachz male or female ? DON"T READ THIS
Followup-To: alt.flame,alt.tasteless,alt.suicide
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:34:44 GMT
Originator: oysteint@lyse.ifi.uio.no


JUst ignore Steve, he has again and again proved he is utterly clueless and 
an complete idiot.

Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: *die* monitor.ece.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:07:16 GMT

In article <thecure.713866573@munagin> thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (the cure) writes:

>Yes, I would care to write the aforementioned bot. Wait, hang about.
>I have. Silly me, it was so trivial I forgot. It's been used by avalon
>and phone now for a while, and I post the odd stat thing here from it as were..
>
>What wrong with getting the bot to do this..
A bot can't see everyone on the net.  Simple. A server can.

>>>(ie - /stats L monitor.ece.uiuc.edu does nothing.)
Monitor is not a server. It's a service, (yes yes.. I know it has no S line
as of course we all know there is only ONE person with the service code).
To do what it does, it requires the information that a server can see, and 
not a bot.  It has no obligation to return every peice of information that
a server would, yet it returns, TRACE, and ADMIN.  What else do you really
need to verify what it is?

>don't get anything back, it's stupid of me to think that it's hanging
>right? I mean, shit, where do I get off thinking that it has worked
Yep.
>
>THERE ARE A LOT OF SERVERS ON THE NET THAT SERVER LITTLE OR NO PURPOSE.
And this is NOT a server, and it DOES serv a very useful purpose.

>This server is just such one of them. It server -nothing- to the
>irc community that is needed. Your server that it hangs off
>may well be justified (I haven't looked it up) - but this
>doover does nothing.
You are absolutely totally wrong.  monitor is used by admins throughout 
the US to look up stats on various sites.  The reason it's not the same
as using /links and /lusers is that it keeps a continuous record. IT 
remembers EVERYONE in the US domains that has used IRC. It's got a database
with every subdomain.top-domain pair in the country from which someone
has used irc and it keeps track of exactly how many people from a 
given domain have used irc.  This is useful for finding out whether a
site has any local users and whether they need a server, etc etc.

>
>blah blah blah ,etc, etc, etc.
You're foaming at the mouth.
[...]
>
>Yeah, no shit.
>
I'm sorry that monitor can't do anything for *.au or the rest of the world
but that's life.  It's a valuable service.  I'd rather see Nickserv bite it
than monitor.

	ian
Newsgroups: alt.irc