I am going to have to agree with this statement. The ISP that I (now) work at, used to boast a fairly well used IRC server. Political battles in the office sent the owner of the server down to Emory to run his server. Since that time, our ISP has been Klined from just about every server on EFNet. Now that more and more of the servers are popping out of EFNet, it is impossible for me to join this network. This frustrates me to know end, as when I first started getting online, IRC was just the STUFF to me. Nowadays, it consists of me idly chatting with new friends I have made worldwide, and popping into #perl, the BEST help channel I have ever found. (Just ask purl).
At this point, if EFNet did die, it wouldn't matter to me (as I can't access it), but I never see that happening. It just saddens me to think that the vast knowledge base (even if in just one channel to me) is lost to me because some OPers have a power trip, or dislike my ISP for some personal reason./:
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I wouldn't say totally civilian though. Think about the hundreds of companies that were contained within those buildings.
I am going to have to agree with this statement. The ISP that I (now) work at, used to boast a fairly well used IRC server. Political battles in the office sent the owner of the server down to Emory to run his server. Since that time, our ISP has been Klined from just about every server on EFNet. Now that more and more of the servers are popping out of EFNet, it is impossible for me to join this network. This frustrates me to know end, as when I first started getting online, IRC was just the STUFF to me. Nowadays, it consists of me idly chatting with new friends I have made worldwide, and popping into #perl, the BEST help channel I have ever found. (Just ask purl). At this point, if EFNet did die, it wouldn't matter to me (as I can't access it), but I never see that happening. It just saddens me to think that the vast knowledge base (even if in just one channel to me) is lost to me because some OPers have a power trip, or dislike my ISP for some personal reason. /: