Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sunc5!knauer From: knauer@sunc5 (Rob Knauerhase) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Proposed get-together on the IRC. Message-ID: <1990Dec11.094326.27354@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 11 Dec 90 09:43:26 GMT References: <1990Dec09.020335.6476@torag.uucp> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: knauer@cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Science, Urbana Lines: 32 In article <1990Dec09.020335.6476@torag.uucp> marekp@torag.uucp (Marek Pawlowski) writes: >I propose a get together on the IRC (type "irc" from the shell prompt, >if you are logged in to a site on the Internet, and have irc installed >on your site) on December 15, 1990, in the "+Apple" channel. > >Time scheduled: 7pm EDT - X[pm/am] EDT > >Topic: Anything and everything. > This is actually a pretty good idea; from what I've seen of IRC, (at least here) it's an undergraduate time-waster. This would put it to good use. The key is participation. I don't know how many sites run IRC, though. The Unknown User's idea of getting someone "famous" on-line is something we should look into, but probably not feasible before this Saturday night. If you have access to telnet but not IRC, there's a BBS-type system (called FreeNet) sponsored by Case Western Reserve University (in the guise of the National Public Telecomputing Network or some other silly name) at freenet-in-a.cwru.edu. You have to mail in a registration to be allowed to do anything real, and the menus are quite literally user-hostile, but it will at least let you get to IRC if your site isn't running it locally. Rob Knauerhase -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Robert C. Knauerhase knauer@cs.uiuc.edu U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign rck@ces.cwru.edu,knauer@cwru.bitnet Case Western Reserve University knauer@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov NASA Lewis Research Center " : q ! emacs " -- all the vi you need to know...