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Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/29/06 20:13
sTony wrote:
> The reason for the chat is want to experiment with uncommon chat features.
> Things like, automatic people filtering/selection, so that people are
> grouped together according to their interests, and also a sort of democratic
> moderation system, where if enough users say "Kick that User" the user is
> kicked. Things like that.
Much of those things you can do with a irc-bot and there are loads of nice
scripts written to one of the best bots, eggdrop.
> I've never
> done an IRC chat, and I don't have any idea on how to proceed. Any help
> would be appreciated.
first of all, you need a IRC client, there are quite many and they have their
goods and bads. X-Chat is one of the most popular I guess, it's quite easy to
use, BitchX is another popular IRC client, that one work fine in a terminal.
Next you have to connect to a IRC server, there are quite many
IRC-server-networks and many of them are listed by default in the IRC clients
lists (at least X-Chat has a load of them). Assuming you pick X-Chat, just
select one and connect.
At this point you have to choose a channel to join
if you type:
/list
you get a list of public channels on the network
to join one, type
/join #channel_name
If there aren't a such channel, a new channel will be created and others can
join it (until you change settings for that channel), the channel will
disappear when the last user leaves it. There are networks which gives you
access to a Chan-server, it's really a bot that keeps your channel and your
settings alive while there aren't any users.
Gosh, there are so much that you can do, that I will just redirect you to a
HOWTO: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IRC/
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html
Those two should give you a good understanding about IRC, if you see some
windowz-nerds talking about mirc, they usually mean IRC but are thinking that
IRC is called mirc as their IRC-client is called mirc.
//Aho
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