[ILUG] JUST NOT PRACTICAL

[Matt Rudge]

One I've used before is EIRC, available at: http://eirc.sourceforge.net/

It's licensed under GPL and is freely available for download.

Regards

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Graham - Computing Technician
> [mailto:Graham.Smith at it-tallaght.ie]
> Sent: 24 April 2002 11:01
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] JUST NOT PRACTICAL
> 
> 
> I'm sure somebody could dig out a nice newbie friendly 
> web based java irc client.... 
> 
> I think irc would be more complementary rather than a 
> replacement for this list.
> 
> G.
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>  Department of Computing,
>  Institute of Technology,
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronan Cunniffe [mailto:ronan at cunniffe.net]
> Sent: 23 April 2002 19:19
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] JUST NOT PRACTICAL
> 
> 
> Quoting AJ McKee <aj at nevermindthebollox.com>:
> 
> <snip> 
> > But this should not mean that we neglect the list either. 
> Remembering the
> ICT
> > Expo a big selling point of Linux was the availability of the 
> > list and its friendleness. 
> 
> Let me second that!  I'm on home dial-up, which is why 
> anything I ever post
> (all
> of, ooh, 5 things so far....) is usually done waaay post 6 pm.  If
> everything
> goes to irc, I'm locked out.
> 
> I would also like to hoist (oh yes! :-) the old bleat of 
> "it'll discourage
> newbies!" if the principal interaction is real-time.  They 
> may not know
> about
> IRC, they may be on dial-up, they may have to look up "gcc" in the
> dictionary....
> Barriers to entry, and all that.
> 
> Ronan C.
> 
> 
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