On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, eerpinisatish wrote: > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:46:01 -0000 > From: eerpinisatish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [twincling] IRC chats ?? > > Hello , > > well this may seem a little trivial , but can anyone please explain to > me how do we chat on a IRC channel ?? >
IRC or Internet Relay Chat was created by Jarko in 1988 for "multi-user" communication. This is similar to group of people sitting together at a place and chatting. With IRC, the a similar interaction happens leveraged on IRC protocol and IRC software ie. server and clients (representing users). The two key server components are . NickServ . ChanServ As a user you register with NickServ your 'nick' or nickname/userid. This is to help identify users. Teams or groups or organizations interested in setting up a virtual chatroom, register the name with 'ChanServ' eg. #twincling Perhaps borrowing the TV lingo, the term 'channel' is official name for the chatroom. Most clients aka IRC clients connect to publicly well-known IRC servers like irc.freenode.net (Open Source teams/projects) on port 6667. Almost all the command sets are prefixed with '/msg ' when communicating with the services like NickServ or ChanServ. /msg NickServ COMMAND /msg ChanServ COMMAND /join #twincling /leave #twincling See the list of commands at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRC_commands The system is highly scalable and provide true multi-user interaction experience. eg. if you are on #twincling-linux channel and discussing stuff with 5 other people and get disconnected, you can join back the channel when online. The channel is still other and other folks as well. Yahoo Conference for example requires an organizer and people have to be reinvited again and again, if their connection keeps dropping off. Another interesting aspect about IRC is the IRCbots. they are a mechanism to automate tasks, interaction and serve as protection agents for the channels. They can also be misused. IRC is quite interesting. Give it a try. thanks Saifi.
