From news@neptune.pegasus.cranfield.ac.uk Tue Oct 15 07:26:27 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.7.6/2.3JIK) with SMTP id HAA12642; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:26:24 -0400 Received: from relay4.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09284; Tue, 15 Oct 96 07:08:46 EDT Received: from neptune.pegasus.cranfield.ac.uk by relay4.UU.NET with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: neptune.pegasus.cranfield.ac.uk [138.250.1.185]) id QQblng02774; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:08:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by neptune.pegasus.cranfield.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22705 for news-answers@uunet.uu.net; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:08:24 +0100 (BST) To: news-answers@uunet.uu.net From: mandar@wildstar.net (Mandar M. Mirashi) Newsgroups: alt.irc.undernet,alt.irc.questions,alt.irc,alt.irc.ircii,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: IRC Undernet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (Part 1 of 2) Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 14 Oct 1996 17:39:54 -0000 Organization: Wildstar Internet systems, Norman OK Lines: 1469 Sender: mandar@choctaw.wildstar.net Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Distribution: world Expires: Thursday, 24 Oct 96 17:39:49 (Z) Message-Id: Reply-To: mandar@wildstar.net (Mandar M. Mirashi) Nntp-Posting-Host: choctaw.wildstar.net Summary: This posting contains useful information regarding IRC and an alternative network to the EFnet - the Undernet IRC network. Please read this before posting to alt.irc.undernet, alt.irc.questions, alt.irc, or alt.irc.ircii Keywords: IRC irc Undernet faq FAQ client server telnet internet cyber chat X-Posting-Frequency: Posted each week to the IRC newgroups X-Content-Currency: This FAQ changes regularly. When a saved or printed copy is over 2 months old, please obtain a new one. Path: news.cranfield.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!daresbury!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!uknet!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!EU.net!nntp.primenet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!in-news.erinet.com !bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!hustle.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.clark.net!mr.net!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.wildstar.net!not-for-mail Xref: news.cranfield.ac.uk news.answers:65125 alt.irc.undernet:2637 alt.irc.questions:8334 alt.irc:3079 alt.irc.ircii:3486 alt.answers:20365 Posted-By: auto-faq 3.1.1.2 Archive-name: irc/undernet-faq/part1 Version: $Id: undernet-faq, v3.2.0 1995/08/07 13:23 mandar Exp $ Undernet IRC FAQ [Part I] (updated 1st June 1996) - Weekly Repost Version 1 By Paul Grant (Grant) Version 2-3 - written by Mandar Mirashi (Mmmm) mandar@wildstar.net The FAQ consists of answers to several frequently asked questions on the IRC newsgroups. Please don't ask these questions again, they've been answered plenty of times already - and please don't flame someone just because they may not have read this particular posting. Thank you. The FAQ consists of the following sections. I) IRC for the newcomer [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]