>Over the last couple of years a few of us have chosen to get together once
>a week for an hour or two over IRC. These chats are rarely about fish,
>more about the fishkeepers and how they are getting along in the "real"
>world.
>
>There are many fine IRC tutorial sites on the web. One not-so-fine one is
>www.tip.net.au/~andrew/irc.htm - I haven't updated it in ages. There is an
>unofficial web page for the channel at
>http://www.tip.net.au/~andrew/rainbow.htm - it again needs a little work.
>
>To join in you will need an IRC client - as you use Eudora as your mail
>client, so you must find a client for IRC. Popular ones for MS Windows
>include mIRC, vIRC, and pIRCh.
>
>Do a search on one of the above names, there are many download sites for them.
>
>You may have trouble accessing IRC from your QuT account - some tertiary
>institutions frown upon access to chat services.
>
>Hard to say how to handle this end of it - how well do you know your Admin
>types? :)
>
>We use the AUSTnet IRC server network at the present time - there are
>various servers on AUSTnet - some work, some do not. The problem I touched
>upon in my email is that server usa.austnet.org seems to be cut off from
>the rest of the world at the moment. (This is actually an alias used by
>several servers, but I won't go into that kind of detail here).
>
>There are more details available on www.austnet.org.
>
>Anyhow, I hope that this has given you a bit more of an idea of what we are
>talking about :)
>
>We meet at 12.30PM AEST (Canberra/Sydney time) of a Saturday. Maybe we'll
>see you there.
>
>Cheers, Andrew
>
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>andrew at pcug.org.au http://www.tip.net.au/~andrew
>
> "Beware of people who dislike cats."
> -- Irish proverb
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