#nflug on efnet

[green_man]

Mark Musone wrote, On 08/07/03 10:30 AM:

> efnet is a set of IRC servers (someone feel free to help me, I don’t 
> know much about irc myself)
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> each group of IRC servers are independent of one another..
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> not much different than AOL messenger versus MSN messenger versus ICQ 
> ..etc..
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> in windows, you can download MIRC (www.mirc.com 
> <http://www.mirc.com/>) and it comes with a list of servers on
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> different IRC networks. you’ll want to choose a server thatys on the 
> efnet network.
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> -Mark
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I'm ignorant and confused :-[
Tell me if I've got this right.

IRC and ICQ are not the same thing.
ICQ is like an email prog, where you can send a message to a specific 
person if you know thier address.
IRC is more like a web browser, where any number of  people can access 
the same web page [channel] at the same time.  

Is this a pretty fair analogy ?

-- 
The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test my sanity. 

Scott
Netscape 7.0 on Win 98 SE