[Spooks] IRC Chat

[Chris Smolinski]

As many of you know, several of us folks log on to the IRC channel 
#monitor to exchange real time loggings and listening tips, as well 
as idle chat while conditions are poor ;-)

#monitor is hosted on the ircnet network which, as some of you who 
have tried to connect to #monitor have discovered, is not a very 
stable network. It's also very difficult to get access to it if you 
are not in Europe.

There now is a solution. There is another #monitor channel on the 
zirc network, and there is a link bot which serves to pass messages 
back and forth between the two channels. So now you can log onto 
#monitor on zirc, and still join in the action. The zirc network is 
very stable, and has several servers. I have never had a problem 
accessing it here in the US.

If you log onto the channel, and there doesn't seem to be any 
activity, just introduce yourself. There's almost always a few people 
lurking.

You can get a full list of servers here: http://www.zirc.org/servers/?n=n

I find that using irc.zirc.org seems to work well, it redirects your 
irc client to a working server.

You'll need an irc client of course to get onto irc. Do some web 
searching if you don't have one, there's lots of them out there for 
Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com