Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!funic!santra!santra!paivi From: paivi@hila.hut.fi (Paivi Hyvarinen) Newsgroups: comp.groupware Subject: Re: Problems with a conversation system: IRC Message-ID: Date: 4 Jul 90 17:44:47 GMT References: <2983@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1990Jun24.191030.14091@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <57814@bbn.BBN.COM> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 40 In-Reply-To: mfidelma@bbn.com's message of 25 Jun 90 19:46:10 GMT I was surprised to see a discussion about IRC here, but then again, IRC certainly qualifies as groupware. IRC is originally a Finnish program that nowadays has developped into (at least) two different branches, so it is hard to say anything about its features without knowing what version of who's IRC you are talking about. The newest IRC I know about is a proto that IRC's first creator, Jarkko Oikarinen (known as WiZ in IRC) from Oulu University, Finland will give out to you to test if you mail him. His email adress is jto@tolsun.oulu.fi He could be on holiday now, but usually reads his mail even when travelling. You could also try to persuade him to write a brief history for this group of the two (or more) IRC branches. As IRC is freeware, he won't probably even know everything that has happened since IRC started spreading in the US. I would certainly like to know what versions are out there and how they work or don't work. There is also at least one American variant of IRC. I have used several versions of WiZ's "old" IRC and one version of the new American one (called Irc2, or something like that), and I am very interested to see, what the newest WiZ-IRC will look/feel like. Please feel free to comment directly to WiZ, he has been working with the program again quite a lot lately and has always been glad to see new ideas and contributions. You can also tell it was me who blew the whistle. ;-) (We're good frieds) Paivi -- @ Paivi Hyvarinen @ paivi_hyvarinen@hut.fi @ @ Education Support Division / User Support @ @ @ Computing Centre, Room U249 @ Voice: 358 + 0 - 451 4316 @ @ Helsinki University of Technology, Finland @ Home: 455 0894 @