Re: IRC

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Michael Beattie wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > -> Yikes! The server has 20 IP's!
> > 
> > yes it's a little IRC net with ~20 servers and ~200 users... really great
> 
> Like Manoj said; little (if at all) congestion.

With so many servers, I find that I often connect to one on the other side
of the world.  Occasionally this causes some latency, so I've been 
specifying a specific server in /etc/irc/servers, rather than take pot
luck.  I don't use IRC that much, but it seems a bit more responsive this
way.

Bob

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