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Oldest IRC Server Going Offline
Matty_ writes: "Looks like the oldest IRC server in continued operation on the Internet is going to be turned off for good. According to the server's MOTD, the server will be shut off no later than January 1. Aparently the University of Colorado can no longer support the software and hardware, as well as provide the network resources, specifically the extra bandwidth required for the various DoS (Denial of Service) attacks from which EFnet servers still suffer. They chose not to accept the liability and decided to retire the server."
Efnet was cool for a while but now their site doesn't even publish a server list. First of all, drop fucking ident! You don't need it, it causes more problems and has no use at all today.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Bunch of lamers.
I reflect your pompous signature back upon you.
This is also an interesting read, but it's not as in depth about IRC.
So, I really can't blame them for doing this. Their network really isn't in very good shape (and my buddy has been job-hunting for several months because things are so miserable).
~wally
IRC is home to the largest collection of lamers in the world. It's home to people that do nothing but try to express their sexual virility and looking for porn. But...its fun. IRC is great. I know lots of cool people on IRC, and its going to be morons like flooders, advertisers, etc, etc that ruin it for everyone else. They should be sued.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
I swear if I ever catch anyone on my network attempting to flood an IRC server I will personally have their balls in my hand.
If that's what turns you on, may I suggest you try hanging out in a truckstop bathroom?
duh.
get a fucking clue ok. what has changed since 1988?
Are there more DOS attacks? i dont know,
are there more IP Lawyers out there ready to pounce?
hell yes.
oh yeah, not to mention the kiddie porn irc has always let run rampant meanwhile trying to 'crack down' on DOSer's.
but anyways, trying to get a straight answer out of irc 'leaders'
is like trying to get a straight answer from a politicians,
they are always more worried about how people
will interpret what they say than in just blurting
out what was on their mind.
This post is obviously a troll. (or offtopic, or overrated, whatever you fancy). Therefore, if you have moderation points and you mod this post down, you're an idiot because that's exactly what I want you to do : if you mod this post down, you'll have one less moderation point to moderate a worthy message down and hurt a good poster with your idiocy. On the other hand, if you don't moderate this troll down, it'll leave yet another troll unmoderated. What a dilemma ! what will you be ? an idiot, or a bad moderator ??
You say efnet nicks aren't owned, yet you put your efnet nick in your sig?
The shareholder is always right.
big deal. untarring a large archive will freeze a freebsd box.
... the only people that hang out on those fucking things are "l33t d00dz"-fuckheads anyway.
I hate IRC. Really do.
I can really understand the exhaustion w/ efnet. I quit using it because we had to go to such lengths just to defend our chanels from "hackers". And for godsakes, a couple of 'em were formal democracies in organization! It's sort of like a world wherein a total lack of a life (*cough* scriptkiddies *cough*) can cause a small tactical nuclear weapon to materizlize in someone's lap -- it just doesn't leave much room for communities.
Oh, and by the way:
y'all suckers and motherfuckers
tryin to cop my nick
tryin to dis my skilz
bout to get a gun up in yo grilz
bitch!
-NoC 2001, 2o6/CStM/VpN/DTi/uC/and-all-that-shit
:-)
I'm pretty sure I was the first one rockin my handle on iRC -- I been rockin it since '90 and I'm gonna keep on rockin into the new millenium so best to watch your back, son.
They r not vandals, just young people having "fun"
For having has the pleasure to "observe" some of them in action, effectivly they are just a bragging bunch that still didn't discover Beer and Girls...
BUT among them are some keen minds. some guys I wouldn't like to meet after their Comp CS, at least not on the wrong side of a DoS...
But then, it has always been so. And it'll give us competition in the coming years... Well, maybe I'll have to readapt that ol'Doom (You know, the one with process as monster, and to kill a process you killed the corresponding monster) and put a specific attack to each weapon, and maybe a good sniffer/tracker to play radar...
If on my own turf, I should be on the winning side 8)
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker