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Bite My Shiny IRC

posted by mattie_p on Sunday February 23 2014, @09:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the ancient-but-useful-technology dept.

What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?

Barrabas writes:

"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.

Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!

Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by xlefay on Monday February 24 2014, @12:47AM

    by xlefay (65) on Monday February 24 2014, @12:47AM (#5542) Journal

    I agree partially. Mostly, hosts are given out by ISPs and consist of actually valuable information for a direct attack at someone which is something we masquerade by scrambling it. And I apologize for the assertion (which was completely false) that you may be desperate to hide your IP/hostname.

    Having that said, please read my other comment: http://dev.soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=261&cid=554 0 [dev.soylentnews.org] - I hope this is more satisfying.

    ~ xlefay

  • (Score: 1) by xlefay on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:50AM

    by xlefay (65) on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:50AM (#9531) Journal

    As promised: http://dev.soylentnews.org/~xlefay/journal/112 [dev.soylentnews.org] ;)