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Title    Bite My Shiny IRC
Date    Sunday February 23 2014, @09:54PM
Author    mattie_p
Topic   
from the ancient-but-useful-technology dept.
https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/24/0117232

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."

Links

  1. "IRC" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
  2. "Won't you join us?" - http://irc.sylnt.us/?channels=#soylent
  3. "Barrabas writes" - http://dev.soylentnews.org/~Barrabas/journal/79
  4. "sylnt.us" - http://sylnt.us/
  5. "Twitter account" - https://twitter.com/SoylentNews

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