Wow! I guess it's different when Sean tells everyone about IRC. Hm, I should have elaborated the first time I mentioned it. :)<br><br>The definition of IRC can be found at wikipedia for those of you who want to learn more -
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC</a><br><br>Basically, it stands for Internet Relay Chat and it's like a live chat room online. I'm on it 24/7 and have been for years.<br><br>A more user friendly IRC client is xchat.
<a href="http://www.xchat.org/">http://www.xchat.org/</a> . Most distros come with this one now as the main IRC client, I believe.<br><br>If you guys are interested in a web based (java) client I can set that up ... just let me know :)
<br><br><br>Matthew Gallizzi<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Proctor-Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:mproctor13@gmail.com">mproctor13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/30/06, Tom Emerson <<a href="mailto:osnut@pacbell.net">osnut@pacbell.net</a>> wrote:<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>><br>> Sean O'Donnell wrote:<br>> > Speaking of promoting the group, there is an IRC channel for it
<br>> > (#sgvlug) on the FreeNode Network (<a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>) [...]<br>> > Although I'm imagining that most of you are already aware of all this,<br>> > and are simply not interested? =p
<br>><br>> I suspect that most people around here think that the SGVLUG "IRC"<br>> channel is "send an e-mail to <a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>"<br>><br>> (besides, take a look at who posts and what/how they post -- do you
<br>> really want to see David's stream-of-consciousness, Dustin's anecdotes,<br>> Mike's typos, or my counterpoints-to-everything in real time?) :)<br>><br><br>Well acctually foo(Matt) created that irc channel after I started
<br>hanging out in #lalugs and am there when I remember to start my irc<br>client while I am at work. I am still very new to irc.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>