Re: [Madwifi-users] Madwifi Irc channel. - micro-howto

[Josh (N. A. <no...@gn...>]

There are so many different IRC clients and different distros come with 
different clients.  For example, none of the RedHat installations I have 
access to have the 'irssi' you mentioned below.  Personally I use XChat, 
Gaim and Mozilla for IRC in graphical mode and sirc for IRC in textmode.

I think the best thing to do is to give people the particulars Alex 
mentions below and let them figure out how to use whatever particular 
IRC client they have access to for themselves.  Most are well-documented 
with their own help or help available on the internet.

If you *really* want to make it easy for people to be on IRC, somebody 
could set up a WebIRC server and then just link to it.  CGI-IRC 
(http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/) is a good example of such a tool.

Cheers,
Josh
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Matt Foster wrote:
> Quoting Alexander Wirtz (li...@pc...):
> 
>>>how about a simple howto get to use it ??
>>>	- which app to fire up
>>>	- what url to type into it 
>>
>>ahem, there are plenty of HowTos concerning IRC-usage. The interesting 
>>stuff is the servername "irc.freenode.net" and the channelname 
>>"#madwifi". Applications include kvirc, irssi, bitchx, ircii, xchat, 
>>zircon, trillian, mirc, and so on and so forth...
> 
> 
> It might be handy for newbies if there are instructions for one. I think
> if i saw something like.
> 
> In irssi type '/connect freenode', and then '/join madwifi'. The people
> who really haven't got a clue won't get too stuck.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> matt
> 

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