Re: Another night on the IRC!

[Steven Blutter <sblutter@worldnet.att.net>]

Dan Cardish wrote:
> 
> Last night Hal Robinson showed up to join me (actually, I showed up after
> him!) in the #leica chat group on the undernet IRC network.  It would have
> been nice if there were more of you there, but it was still interesting for
> us to compare notes on our Leica equipment etc.  Think of the IRC as a
> realtime mailing list.  Instead of posting a note that may take hours to
> show up in everyone's mailbox, a post on the IRC shows up in seconds, almost
> instantaneously.  Roger couldn't make it last night, but I will be there
> again this evening at 8:00 p.m. EST.
> 
> Ideally, once the novelty wears off, we can try to set a time where if we
> wanted to log in, we would have a good chance of finding someone else there
> at that time.  Think of it as a supplemental LUG.   AND, if we had a web
> site where we could display our Leica photos, we could use the IRC as a
> medium for critique.
> 
> Incedently, I chose the undernet network only because that's the one I used
> previously.  If it turns out to be too busy (and I did have problems the
> last two nights) we can try another server network, such as one of the
> Dalnet servers (any server ending in Dalnet or undernet, as the case may be,
> is suitable).  For more info, email me.
> 
> Dan C.

Dan,
IRC sounds interesting.  as a newbie don't know how to get there - where 
and how do i do that?  haven't figured out any chat area.  e-mail is my 
current miracle - and i thought telex was good enough...
sblutter@worldnet.att.net