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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: IRC and Security
Keywords: ANAL ASSHOLES
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.200235.13575@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 91 20:02:35 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.212436.10526@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>  This is absurd.  People have given you numerous examples of things for which
>IRC has been used that can most assuredly be considered "the spread of
>knowledge".  Its use during the war and its using during the earthquake are
>just two examples.

I might note in passing that IRC can be used in educational ways, but
also writing IRC itself has been quite an education for the people
involved. Ever written a fully-distributed mostly-fault-tolerant
database system in an Internetwork enviornment? Loads of fun, I assure
you.