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Is IRC All Bad?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the slashnet-notwithstanding dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IRC is often portrayed by the media as a haven for illegal activity. The author of IRC Hacks set out to find whether or not this was true. His conclusions are quite alarming, suggesting that 99.9% of IRC usage is illegal although he backs up IRC by saying that it is also used for lots of constructive purposes and is used by open source software developers." Update: 01/21 05:17 GMT by P : The author claimed it was merely 99.9% of traffic "to the top 60 channels" that is illegal, not 99.9% of all IRC traffic.

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  1. Re:the real big shit by Sinner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did a real big shit earlier. It was great! I totally recommend it.

    Or were you talking about something else?

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