Re: IRC - A beginners tutorial can be fun too :-)

[Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com>]

Suno Ano wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> in the past it happened more and more often that I had been asked by
> people if I could show/help them with joining an IRC network. Those
> folks are, or shall I say, have been mostly ordinary Windows users
> (think of retired Uncle Bob).
>
> After I educated person #8 on the fine arts of IRC, I thought to myself,
> that ain't going to scale if we continue down this road sir... I decided
> to write a fool-proof tutorial an point folks to it from now on
>
> http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/misc.html#irc_with_pidgin

Pidgin has got to be about the worst tool for accessing IRC.
(I do use it for MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk).
I use IRSSI, myself, but, for the clueless n00b, I would recommend a 
tool like konversation, kirsc, xchat, or, even, seamonkey-irc (shame we 
don't have seamonkey in our repos.  I used it on PCLOS and Ubuntu for my 
browser and e-mail.  Faster than FF and TB).

/tony

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