Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!hoss.unl.edu!greg From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Hammer T. H.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Telnetting to IRC (Getting together) Message-ID: <1990Dec13.003348.20034@hoss.unl.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 00:33:48 GMT References: <1990Dec09.020335.6476@torag.uucp> <1990Dec11.094326.27354@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <90345.160809AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lines: 21 In <90345.160809AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET> writes: >Somebody mentioned that if you didn't have irc access, but had telnet access >that there was a BBS place you could telnet to. This is true, but I've found >it easier just to telnet directly to somebody's IRC server. It works just >as well (not that good). Heh, I remember one site that got kinda mad at Quartz BBS (quartz.rutgers.edu) for using IRC in "raw mode" without a client. Seems that their main argument was that it was possible to crash their server doing this, and so they locked them out, until they got a client that didn't pose a security risk to the BBS. Actually, I'm not sure if they got a safe client or not... comments Opus? > - Andrew. -- __ _____________ __ \ \_\ \__ __/ /_/ / How many Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots \greg@hoss.unl.edu/ does it take to change a lightbulb? \_\ \_\|_|/_/ /_/ "Lights... don't talk to me about lights."