IRC Forum w/ CmdrTaco & Hemos Tonight at 8pm Eastern

Tonight on irc.slashnet.org in #Forum Hemos & I will be hanging out answering users' questions. This is your chance to ask about the moderation system, story selection, or the technology upon which Slashdot is built. (No Biz questions please ;) It's been a long time since we last did this, and we're hoping we can answer questions and get some feedback on some new ideas too. We'll see ya there.

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How to telnet to irc

[Anonymous Coward]

You have linux, so that has telnet included.

You have to use ':' (colon), if Your text contains space(s).

First things first:
telnet irc-server 6667

Then log in: (<host> and <server> is irrelevant):
user <ident> <host> <server> :<irc name>

Choose a nick:
nick <nickname>

Since You have to answer the server;s PING manually, you'd better know it:
pong <irc server>

Join to a channel:
join <#channel>

Ask for /NAMES:
names <#channel>

Send something to the channel or to a nick:
privmsg <#channel/nick> :<message>

Leave if You are getting bored:
part <#channel>

You can send NOTICE this way:
notice <#channel/nick> :<notice message>

Let's change the topic:
topic <#channel> :<new topic>

Good luck!

Use an IRC client...

[MythoBeast]

1. Download it. Here's a link:

http://www.xchat.org/

2. Install it
3. Go here for further instructions:

http://www.irchelp.org/

4. Don't blame us.

-MB

UK - 1am BST

[amembleton]

For those in the UK, it should be on at 1am tonight.

Re:Log-File?

[drdink]

SlashNET's forum system automagically generates a logfile which we will make available.