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Part of - Drago's IRC guides

This is meant to be a beginner's survival guide for using IRC, more of a quick some up of some important points then an in-depth guide.

It is a work in progress...

Terms

• IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat
• IRC Channel a channel is a group (or chatroom) related to a particular subject matter, Channel names are precided by the "#" sign, for example: #lounge
• Topic the text displayed when entering a channel
• On-Join message usually a welcome message or
• Op or Moderator a channel's boss, sets and enforces the channel rules and have the ability to kick and/or ban you from the channel.
• Idle to sit in the channel and not discuss anything. (this would probably describe what most IRC user's do....)
• Kick to remove someone from the channel
• Ban to remove a user's ability to rejoin a channel
• Bot a nick that is run by a script or program
• Nick the name you use to chat with

Guidelines

• IRC started as a means for people to chat with one another in real time over the internet. And a majority of channels are still the same way today, as a means to chat with other people.
• All IRC channels ARE NOT the same. What might be acceptable in one channel may be completely off limits in another. This includes triggers, idlying and even the language used inside the channel, among other things.
• When joining a channel, before you do anything, read the channel's topic and on-join messages, along with (if listed in the topic) any website and/or "!rules" trigger

Created Oct 23 2007, 5:36
Copied to website: Oct 23 2007, 10:09 PM
Last edited: Oct 23 2007, 9:58 PM