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From: becker@acsu.buffalo.edu (Don Becker)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Irc versions
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:58:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.1992Apr7.165855.2123
Organization: UB

rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) writes:

>In <1992Apr4.171946.5851@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>| ">1. I liked being able to use bold.
>| "
>| "Have the IrcII people added another magic thingie in (like
>| "underlining) so that non-IrcII people get more gibberish on their
>| "screens? Say it isn't so...\

>Hmmm... bold typed text has been around for quite a while (over a year, maybe
>even longer). Bold text is just text surrounded with ^B's. Quite common in
>topics of channels and the like. 

On my client, ^B produces inverse text, and ^V produces underline. I'm running 
a 2.7.1 server and a 2.1.5 client. Does anyone know how (or better yet, if) I
can produce just Bold text?

--Don

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: freesw@solomon.technet.sg (Free Software Build)
Subject: help: a new client from Singapore
Organization: National University of Singapore
Distribution: donsilve@solomon.technet.sg, milton@solomon.technet.sg
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 06:01:44 GMT



Hi,

I am in Singapore, any irc server near me? i started the
irc program and it tries to connect to bucsd.bu.edu
at port 6667, connection time out?

Where and what is the server list file? I will need to evaluate
whether i can install my machine as an irc server.

I am a first time user(or attempted user) and had just
compiled the irc at my site, can someone explain or
send me the FAQ about irc?


thanks in advance:)
--milton--
From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: wallop stats again.
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:50:39 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In <mrgreen.703347538@munagin> mrgreen@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) writes:


>Hi again.
>yes, again, these are unoffical.
>      place   wallops   nick oper_status.

>	21:	 55	THOR +
   I'm catching up Thor!!! 8)

>	45:	 22	SUPERMAN -
   YES!!!!!!   ^^^^^^^^

This is true progress... Thank you for sharing my excitement with me.
I dunno if I can ever top Gwydion though... It's quite an honor
making this list. thanks for the opportunity...
   steve
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From: dhavill@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Adrian D. Havill)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Resizing the irc-screen
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:11:13 GMT
Organization: Radford University

In <MAHUE.92Apr1153707@miranda.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de> Marc Huesken writes:
>I have installed IRCII 2.1.5g on HP UX 8.07 and X11R4. Now, when I
>resize the xterm in which irc was started the irc-screen is not
>updated. /exec $echo $TERM prints "tty" although it was "xterm" before
>irc started.

ircII will always report "tty" when it shells off a slave via the EXEC
command, unless you do something weird. ircII also normally detects when an
xterm window has been resized. I can't answer your question w/o more info,
though.
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+-------------------------------------------+ my opinions are not RU's
From: msw1633@zeus.tamu.edu (Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: servers
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:15:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.9APR199211152919
Reply-To: MSW1633@SUMMA.TAMU.EDU
Organization: Texas A&M University, Biochemistry Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

The irc server on our campus has gone and we do not expect to get another one.  
Does anyone know where I could find a list of servers nearby so I could get back 
on irc now and then?  Does anyone know of a specific server that I should use?

Thanks 

Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF        Texas A&M University, Dept of Biochemistry
Vice-President W5AC ARC  		  College Station, Tx. 77843-2128
Internet:  MSW1633@SIGMA.TAMU.EDU 			   (409) 845-0832
Packet/APLINK:  N5RJF @ KE5HE.TX.USA.NA
   "You can't throw darts when you're empty, man." - another Shadelism
From: d1rasmus@dtek.chalmers.se (Owe Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: got killed for no reason, what to do???
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:11:19 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

>>You could also /wallops that the kill was completely unjustified, and the
>>offending op might be pressured to stop, or be killed himself.

>  No, WALLOPS is the wrong advice. Not all opers listen to it (due to
>  noise level). The right way to complain is either message opers
>  privately or to go one of the channels that have most opers online
>  (try first some of the area specific ones like #us_ops, #oz_ops,
>  #eu_opers, etc..) or #twilight_zone.

I find it quite amazing that people can't even use /wallop anymore
to get in touch with an oper. What's the use of implementing /wallop
in future versions of irc, if all it does is to serve as a channel
for people who seemingly don't know how to talk in an ordinary
channel?

---
Owe Rasmussen : d1rasmus@dtek.chalmers.se
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams)
Subject: Re: Channel modes for IRC 2.7
Originator: cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:55:29 GMT

In <1992Apr8.190948.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> roger@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
>I use VMS irc 1.7.1.cgw (1.7.0 modified by an operator (Chris Williams) here at
>UNT) on server sol.acs.unt.edu (which runs 2.7 i think)

nope. 2.6.2f. i'm still waiting for a decent 2.7 server to be released.
then again, i haven't been around irc much the past few months, so 
maybe i'm just behind. [hint: /VERSION]

>THanks,
>RC on irc, 
>in RL,
>roger

-cgw-
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
Subject: Re: how does the pattern matching algorihm work?
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:21:51 GMT

> the subject says it, how does it work?

The simple answer is, "Recursively".

Look at the file reg.c in IRCII2.2pre2 (Don't look at the one in 2.1.5 or
earlier. That was overly complex, totally unreadable, and did less than
the 2.2pre2 algorithm).
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - System Admin)
Subject: how to get on IRC??
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX System (416-636-2026) - 24hrs.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 17:24:58 GMT

	How does one get onto IRC?  I have access to the Internet
but don't think the software is on the system.  Where do I
get it from?  Oh ya...It is a UNIX system.

Thanks...

Marc
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: mpevans@isis.cs.du.edu (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: Channel modes for IRC 2.7
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 10:25:52 GMT

hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke) writes:

>/mode #channel +b kemo!*@*         
>/mode #channel +b *!nissan@*  
>/mode #channel +b *!*@cheshire.oxy.edu

>As shown above, you can ban someone by nick, login, machine, or a combination.

>/mode #channel +b 

>will list the current bans.  They remain active until the channel no longer
>exists, or they are removed by /mode #channel -b whatever.

>They are recognized by 2.7 servers only.   If you're +b'd, and using 2.7,
>you'll get

>*** #whatever: Sorry, cannot join channel.

>(BTW, i suggest changing this in the next server version, as it is currently
>exactly the same message generated by a /mode +i.  how about:

>#whatever: Sorry, an invite is required 
>#whatever: Sorry, cannot join channel, +b *!xxx@yyy is in effect.

I think you will find that the server does  make a distinction between
the two, it's just that the client puts up the same message for both
conditions.
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 92 08:57:19 CST
From:         dan <DANW@WUVMD>
To:           NETNEWS@WUVMD
Subject:      Shouldn't I be able to change servers?
Newsgroups:   alt.irc



I just recently got rxirc (ver 1.3) for vm/cms.  This works fine
but I tried putting a different server name into the file and
it doesn't seem to work.  I got the different names from the
server list published last week.

Do I have to link to specific servers (that run vm)?
Is there another part of the client I need to change?
   (I change the server name in the rxirc names file)

any help would be appreciated.

danw@wuvmd.bitnet      danw@wuvmd.wustl.edu
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 15:32:41 EDT
From: Daniel Weiss <DWEISS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject:    Thesis papers, references, etc.

This is probably too late, as my paper is due tommorrow.  But, I am looking for
any materials to use in a paper about the IRC.

I need a basic history of the net, and of the irc, and anything else that might
 be useful.

Actually, tommorrow is only the rough draft, so any input will help.


Thank you in advance,

Dan Weiss
Washington DC
Please reply, I'm too young to die. :)
From: kosasih@cae.wisc.edu (Kosasih)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Server questions.
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:08:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr8.100818.2813
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Originator: kosasih@sun-2.cae.wisc.edu


	I want to know the name of the server that I can connect
	to when using my irc. Can somebody give me the addresses?
	Thank's in advance.

-- 
|  Ariesto Kosasih			|	NeXTmail:		|
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Thesis papers, references, etc.
From: tognoli@cs.unibo.it (Luca Tognoli)
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:38:47 +0100

yaz@phoenix.oulu.fi (Tuomas K Kaikkonen) writes:

>> >I need a basic history of the net, and of the irc, and anything else
>> >that might be useful.
>>	If you havn't already, ftp a copy of the IRC Thesis that someone in
>>  Australia (forgot the name) did (I think it was last year).  I grabbed a

>It was Elisabeth M. Reid who wrote that IRC Thesis. Also some Italian
>has done a paper of IRC.  Elisabeth's nickname on IRC is Ireshi and
>her e-mail address is emr@munagin.ee.mu.OZ.AU .

If you were referring to STADIUM work about Computer Mediated Communication
(IRC and Italian Videotel) that we made a month ago I can say that I can send
it to everyone that will mail the request to me (tognoli@cs.unibo.it - IRC prxl)

Unfortunately it is written in Italian but if the requests are a lot we'll
manage to translate it in a good English (as this post seems not to be :).

The work has been done by four components of the group STADIUM. The group works
on Human-Computer Interfaces, Computer Mediated Communication and Social
analysis of Technology impact.

Other addresses of STADIUM people who worked to IRC paper which you can 
refer to are:
bassi@cs.unibo.it (IRC Menard)
ulisse@cirfid.unibo.it

Luca

--
Luca Tognoli
Computer Science
University of Bologna (Italy)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Subject: Re: Faster Small Chat Services
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  6 Apr 92 15:06:29 GMT

billp@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Bill Pottenger) writes:

>In article <1992Apr4.003841.39015@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> dcohn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>A little while ago, i had an address for a directly telnetable chat
>>service that was VERY fast but didnt support many users and was more designed
>>for scheduled group chats than for people who always wanted to be able to 
>>talk to someone as IRC is... i cant remember the name of the service or the
>>site address, and have recently wanted to get a small group together 
>>efficiently, and from some stations without a client server, without technical
>>knowledge needed to install one, etc... if anyone can tell me what this
>>address might have been or any other similar small scale conferencing services,
>>it would be greatly appreciated. 
>>		Dan Cohn
>>
>>DCOHN@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU
>>


>Dan, I second the motion.  We too have a weekly business meeting of our
>translation team using irc, and due to the tenuous nature of irc, are constantly
>being interrupted by one server or another closing and remaking various client's
>connections to our channel.  I would really appreciate any hints people can give
>on the above described type of service.

simple.

Just run an isolated server(s) from the main net.

You get all the features of IRC minus the intrusions.

There isnt a rule that says you must connect a server to the main 'net'.

Although irc has been engineered to being more efficient for a large
number of users recently, its not hard to down-scale it by shrinking some
of the constants in include/*.h. Although such things should be done with
care.

avalon
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
Subject: Re: Faster Small Chat Services
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
	<1992Apr4.155342.15699@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 02:30:58 GMT

 Bill> == Bill Pottenger <billp@ncsa.uiuc.edu> 

 Bill> In article <1992Apr4.003841.39015@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
 Bill> dcohn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>A little while ago, i had an address for a directly telnetable chat
>service that was VERY fast but didnt support many users and was more
>designed for scheduled group chats than for people who always wanted to
>be able to talk to someone as IRC is... i cant remember the name of the
>service or the site address, and have recently wanted to get a small
>group together efficiently, and from some stations without a client
>server, without technical knowledge needed to install one, etc... if
>anyone can tell me what this address might have been or any other
>similar small scale conferencing services,

 Bill> Dan, I second the motion.  We too have a weekly business meeting
 Bill> of our translation team using irc, and due to the tenuous nature
 Bill> of irc, are constantly being interrupted by one server or another
 Bill> closing and remaking various client's connections to our channel.
 Bill> I would really appreciate any hints people can give on the above
 Bill> described type of service.

If you use irc regularly, I would suggest you do this: Setup your own
servers and create your own mini-net. I'm not saying this is going to
solve all problems as many problems with IRC involve the underlying
physical network. However, the less servers, the less chance of things
falling apart.

Please feel free to email me if you have questions regarding this.

--Helen

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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: matt@dbaix.oc.com (Matthew Lyle)
Subject: Re: servers
Organization: OpenConnect Systems
Date: 10 Apr 92 01:57:02 GMT

msw1633@zeus.tamu.edu (Mark S. Whitsitt, N5RJF) writes:
>The irc server on our campus has gone and we do not expect to get another one. 
>Does anyone know where I could find a list of servers nearby so I could get back 
>on irc now and then?  Does anyone know of a specific server that I should use?

The machine hosting the server at TAMU is being relocated, I understand, but
will be back on the network.  (Their new links have already been created, if
they happen to be listening in)

Until it's return you can use any of the following Texas servers:

	sol.acs.unt.edu (University of North Texas-Denton)
	oc.com (OpenConnect Systems-Dallas)
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (University of Texas-Austin)

-- 
Matthew Lyle                                                matt@oc.com
                                                            matt@utdallas.bitnet
OpenConnect Systems
Carrollton (Dallas), Texas                                  (214) 490-4090
From: dl2p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas Allen Luce)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: IRC II mailing list
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:05:02 GMT
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The IRC II discussion and mailing list has changed address (to something sane):

  info-ircII+@andrew.cmu.edu  (IRC II Mailing List Submissions)
  info-ircII-request+@andrew.cmu.edu (List Administration)

To be added to the list, send e-mail to info-ircII-request+@andrew.cmu.edu

Douglas Luce
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
Subject: Re: Irc versions
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:28:39 GMT

> Personally, I don't understand why Troy just didn't go all out and add all
> of the VT100 character attribute settings. ;) (blinking, dim, colors... you
> name it) Boy, IRC would be a technicolor thrill for us ircIIers. [sarcasm]

I actually considered adding colour :), but never blink... that would
be damned awful. The problem is that while terminfo has support for
colours, most people using IRC are on termcap based machines, and
termcap does not have support for colours.
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Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Subject: irc.el
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:58:35 GMT


I just obtained irc.el from archive.cis.ohio-state.edu and tried it out.
To do this, I entered emacs and typed 

M-x load-file

and in response to the prompt typed 

irc.el

Then I typed 

M-x irc

and it seemed to be working. However, the IRC server and the password for
it as given in the file irc.el (and who knows what else) are not valid,
according to the error message I received. 

Can someone tell me:
(1) what server and password I should use in the file
(2) how I should have been able to figure out the answer to (1) by myself

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
From: jont@cs.su.oz (Jonathon Tidswell)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: lookup for bot documentation
Date: 11 Apr 92 06:17:40 GMT
Organisation: IRC

In article <1992Apr7.180808.19119@nic.umass.edu> s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Peter Hawkins) writes:

[ ... ]

>>>3) also, any existing scripts to an eliza-like bot?
>>There must be an eliza algorithm floating arround, try a book on AI.
>>N.B. on no account join such a bot to a channel with out telling people
>>what it is, probably best if it has it's own channel.
Absolutely.

>just wondering, if my bot is passive, which means if you don't talk to her,
>she won't talk to you, then does my bot has the _right_ to stay in any channel
>she can get it??

BOTS DONT HAVE RIGHTS.

And nobody has a right to stay in any channel.
Where do people get the impression they have a right to do anything in irc ?
Is it something to do with Americans thinking everybody is subordinated to
their constitution ?

Ernie.
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Jonathon Tidswell              | jont@cs.su.oz.au  ( Ernie on IRC )
Basser Dept. of Comp. Science  | >> This space intentionally left blank. <<
From: p2003740@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: IRC for VMS?
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:15:01 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales


Could someone please tell me what the latest version of IRC if for VAX/VMS?
And where I can get it from.

I think I have irc171.exe, is this the latest for VMS?

Thanks,
Paul.
From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: lookup for bo documentation
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:03:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ux1.1992Apr7.000313.23758
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In article <1992Apr6.143408.27035@nic.umass.edu> s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Peter Hawkins) writes:
>i am making a bot for a channel. so i really need a manual. where can i
>locate a copy??
>specifically, i need help with the followings:
>1) how to auto-join when someone kick your bot off?
Not with the standard client, as there is no /on kick.  You can use an 
/on invite, tho.

>2) is it possible to create a a 'authorized users' list? that's it. if someone
>   is not on the list, his bot service request won't be granted
Use separate /on's for each nick on the list.

>3) also, any existing scripts to an eliza-like bot?

Aaarghhh, please, no.... talking bots are incredibly annoying.


-- 
        Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche.
                      hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
                      Gene Roddenberry 1921-1991
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: I'm back from vacation
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:33:16 GMT
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia

And remember what I said about killing Avalon?

Last time it was a joke.

This time it isn't.

p.s. Avalon, there's a bug in your patch 2.6.2g for AIX on the
RS/6000. Just thought you ought to know.
From: dhavill@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Adrian D. Havill)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Irc versions
Keywords: bold, ircII
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:27:11 GMT
Organization: Radford University

In <1992Apr4.171946.5851@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Greg Lindahl writes:
>Have the IrcII people added another magic thingie ...

Uh yes, they did. It's not exactly new. It also adds international character
support, which gets rid of a lot of "ugly Americanism" that many of the
ircII clients have (they assume that American ASCII is the standard). 2.2__
also prevents fake messages. Features well worth messing up earlier clients.
Besides, they should filter out bogus control stuff anyway. The lack of
filtering is what caused the phoney-msg-phenonema with earlier ircIIs to
happen in the first place. (I don't know about the VMS clients, but I
believe they're immune too) In all, it's features far outweigh it's many
problems, especially if you're an ircII fan and you don't live in the States.

Personally, I don't understand why Troy just didn't go all out and add all
of the VT100 character attribute settings. ;) (blinking, dim, colors... you
name it) Boy, IRC would be a technicolor thrill for us ircIIers. [sarcasm]

But none of this is new. Of course they added another thingie! Where have
you been? Not on #twilight_zone, I reckon, or you'd have been bugged by
phone's boldface username long ago. :)
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+-------------------------------------------+ Adrian David Havill
| "I have no meaningful quotes." -- me.     | dhavill@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu
+-------------------------------------------+ my opinions are not RU's
Newsgroups: alt.irc
From: s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Peter Hawkins)
Subject: Re: lookup for bo documentation
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:59:46 GMT

>>3) also, any existing scripts to an eliza-like bot?
>
>Aaarghhh, please, no.... talking bots are incredibly annoying.

i have to disagree, my talking bot has been in service for 5 days now, people
love it.... the trick is that you don't try to make the bot smart, you try
to make it stupid so that everyone can laugh.....

Newsgroups: alt.irc