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From: waah@milton.u.washington.edu (scott machaffie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: IRC and Security
Message-ID: <18396@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 16:56:46 GMT
References: <7748@uceng.UC.EDU> <NAPO.91Mar13202006@vipunen.hut.fi> <7753@uceng.UC.EDU>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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pmartin@uceng.UC.EDU (Paul Martin) writes:

>In article <NAPO.91Mar13202006@vipunen.hut.fi> napo@vipunen.hut.fi (Hannu Napari) writes:
>Sorry but IRC appears to be SOLELY used for entertainment.  This is a
>poor example of how to spend the students and taxpayers money.

We first found out about the San Francisco earthquake over IRC.  Also, some of
my friends found out that their friends down there were okay through IRC.