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ziggy
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IRC ON GREX? =)
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Dec 29 22:01 UTC 1993 |
Well, I've been thinking, and now that grex has Internet Access, trn,
and about everything else in the computing world I think it's about
time to get irc access. I know I would be willing to pay an extra few
bucks a month for this service, any other comments?
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robh
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response 1 of 53:
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Dec 29 22:42 UTC 1993 |
You'd better belive I'd pay extra for this! I've had many people
I know on Usenet or mailing lists who wanted to "meet" me on IRC,
and I had to turn them down.
(As though I don't spend enough time on-line...)
Mayhap the extra funds should go to getting one or two extra
phone lines?
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vidar
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response 2 of 53:
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Dec 30 00:46 UTC 1993 |
And perhaps a high baud rate modem?
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ziggy
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response 3 of 53:
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Dec 30 05:27 UTC 1993 |
ditto bjorn.
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carson
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response 4 of 53:
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Dec 30 05:49 UTC 1993 |
IRC is evil! However, if it leads to more phone lines (and larger
parties), I guess I can take it.
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carl
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response 5 of 53:
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Dec 30 11:18 UTC 1993 |
Not to digress, or anything, but what is IRC?
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kaplan
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response 6 of 53:
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Dec 30 11:43 UTC 1993 |
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and it's a virtual CB radio. Chat with
people from Norway to really exotic locations like California!
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mju
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response 7 of 53:
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Dec 30 12:08 UTC 1993 |
The only problem I see with getting IRC on Grex is that IRC tends
to be a really big time sink -- people can spend in excess of 4-6
hours at a time on IRC. With the current modem situation, I
don't think Grex could handle the load on the dialins.
One possibility would be to restrict IRC use to, say, 1am-7am.
This would mean that people could use IRC during Grex's off-hours,
when there are frequently several free modems, but wouldn't tie
up the lines for hours on end during prime time.
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rcurl
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response 8 of 53:
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Dec 30 14:23 UTC 1993 |
That would mean, if others adopted the same policy, that you couldn't
chat with Norway, with a seven hour time difference.
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ziggy
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response 9 of 53:
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Dec 30 14:52 UTC 1993 |
really anything is fine, trying to teach myself raw irc is way achin!
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vidar
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response 10 of 53:
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Dec 30 16:15 UTC 1993 |
Groovy.
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steve
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response 11 of 53:
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Dec 30 20:21 UTC 1993 |
If we had infinate phone lines I'd say sure, add IRC. Same for
a Grex MUD. But time and time again, systems with those two services
on them get *swamped* with people doing just those two things. Given
the experience of a lot of other places, I don't think we should unless
we come up with an innovative solution to the bandwidth problem. If
a bunch of users came up with a donation of say $580 to fund three
phone lines for a year, that would probably be about the right amount
of support that IRC would eat up. Maybe. Then again it might even
eat up more than 3 full-time phone lines. It also hogs Internet
bandwidth, but not quite so badly.
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vidar
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response 12 of 53:
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Dec 30 21:48 UTC 1993 |
Ditto of Re # 10
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bartlett
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response 13 of 53:
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Dec 30 22:11 UTC 1993 |
It seems like IRC wouldn't be a good idea until we have a stable incoming
Internet link and can telnet to Grex from Merit, or somewhere else. I
wouldn't want to tie up the dial-in lines when they're the only thing we
have. But if we can come in from Merit, then it doesn't seem like a problem.
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rogue
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response 14 of 53:
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Dec 30 22:23 UTC 1993 |
For IRC, call Innovative Concepts.
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kaplan
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response 15 of 53:
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Dec 31 00:10 UTC 1993 |
IRC should use very little Internet bandwidth. Phone line time should be
the big problem. So what about one tty that can be used for irc
so that irc users could fight over that line without much cost to the
rest of the system?
This item feels like it should be in coop.
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carson
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response 16 of 53:
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Dec 31 09:05 UTC 1993 |
Don't bring us IRC! There are plenty of other places to receive IRC if it's
really wanted! To bring in IRC would be to bring in a lot of users who don't
care much for Grex, but rather for its IRC access. No IRC!!!
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davel
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response 17 of 53:
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Dec 31 13:39 UTC 1993 |
Who's going to link this to coop? Only 3 months left before spring! (sasf)
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chelsea
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response 18 of 53:
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Dec 31 15:51 UTC 1993 |
Thanks for the hint, Dave. This item has been linked from Agora
to Co-op, item #63.
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vidar
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response 19 of 53:
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Dec 31 16:52 UTC 1993 |
Thst' nice to know.
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ziggy
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response 20 of 53:
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Jan 1 23:23 UTC 1994 |
good.
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vidar
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response 21 of 53:
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Jan 2 00:22 UTC 1994 |
I love one-word responses.
--- NOT!!! ---
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scg
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response 22 of 53:
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Jan 3 03:29 UTC 1994 |
I've been in parties on Grex that have lasted around seven hours...
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jared
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response 23 of 53:
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Jan 3 05:52 UTC 1994 |
I'd worry more about ftp bandwitdth than irc.
phone lines is an issue.
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kaplan
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response 24 of 53:
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Jan 6 18:40 UTC 1994 |
this item is linked from agora 24 to internet 6
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