$)CRe: Question about IRC chat

$)Ccooterchekov <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:20:17 -0000

There has been a certain degree of shaking up; #packets has 
abandoned Hybnet entirely and now has, for reasons unknown to me, a 
permanent kickban on anyone using IRC from a .com domain (in other 
words, anyone from Canada can get in now, as can anyone on a 
university network). If the owner has indeed abandoned it, then if 
it lies fallow for a month it can be taken back by whomever wants it.

As far as #quizbowl itself goes, nothing about the channel itself 
has changed, and it can still be accessed on Hybnet (irc.wewt.net 
port 6667 is the generic access). With the retirement of Jason Paik, 
we again announce our continuing search for further volunteers for 
administrative positions on #quizbowl; if you're interested, contact 
any of the ops of #quizbowl (David Levinson, Leah Williams, Brian 
Saxton, Matt Weiner, myself -- I'm at ers at gwu dot edu). Please 
provide a brief summary of your IRC experience when applying; people 
whose applications were declined last year on the grounds that they 
were frosh will be considered this year.

In the interest of fairness, I note that one of #quizbowl's ops has 
decided to establish his own QB irc channel on another network; a 
link to this room is provided on the front page of this club. Please 
be aware that the people responsible for running that room are many 
of the same people lately responsible for running #packets. 
Discussion is underway to resolve this split before the departees 
start crossing themselves backwards and muttering in Slavonic. 
Please be aware that while participation in the alternate channel 
will not disturb participation in, and may be carried along 
simultaneously with, participation in the original channel, we 
cannot guarantee that the converse will be true.

Finally, a technical note: several people have reported issues with 
spontaneous disconnection from the #quizbowl channel on Hybnet. 
Although I'm still looking into it, initial indications are that the 
issue originates with the jIRC java client rather than the network. 
I encourage anyone who plans to use IRC regularly, if they do so 
from their own computer, to install mIRC (PC, www.mirc.co.uk), IRCle 
(Mac, www.ircle.com) or X-Chat (*nix, *BSD (if you don't know what 
those are, you don't have them), PC, MacOS, www.xchat.org).

Any other questions, I'm at your disposal.

Edmund

--- In quizbowl_at_y..., panatropic <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> Now that schools are starting up again and more people are around,
> have 
> things changed in the IRC chatrooms from the way they got to be 
> midsummer, when anyone from certain colleges or certain parts of 
the
> US 
> (as well as anyone AT ALL from Canada or Mexico) got excluded from 
> things and everyone else was perfectly okay with it because, hey, 
it 
> wasn't them?  Honestly, I'm afraid to check for myself.