IRC

Our IRC channel is located at #blinkenshell @ ["Systemshells"] ( irc.overloadx.net is good server for example )

Web access to IRC is available through CGI:IRC here: [http://blinkenshell.org/cgiirc/ http://blinkenshell.org/cgiirc/ ]

Web access through Java is available here: http://blinkenshell.org/pjirc/

Blinkenbot is an eggdrop bot that logs all conversations and creates statistics that's available here: http://blinkenbot.blinkenshell.org/

Blinkenbot also answers to the commands !sysinfo and !seen <nick>. They show system information and when a nickname was last seen on the channel.

People with that has an account on the server can get autovoice on the IRC channel, ask Independence.

Rules

• No flooding or spamming (in channel or pm, includes join/part floods etc)
• No advertising
• No auto-rejoin after kick, having this activated will result in a temporary ban
• English only please
• Be nice! Don't start flamewars, insult others, criticise others in public etc.

Also see network rules for Systemshells: http://systemshell.net/rules.html

Never used IRC before?

IRC is a protocol for communicating over the internet. It stands for Internet Relay Chat and it's one of the leading ways to chat with people, even though the protocol is quite old. If you have never used IRC before, you'll need to get an IRC-client (or use the webchat). Here is a list of clients:

• mIRC http://www.mirc.com/ - Popular and old IRC client, may not be the best though.

• HydraIRC [http://www.hydrairc.com/ http://www.hydrairc.com] - Newer client than mIRC, maybe a bit many windows/panels.[http://www.hydrairc.com/ ]

• XChat http://www.xchat.org/ - Client for X on Unix-OSes.

• Silverex [http://silverex.org/ http://silverex.org] - XChat for Windows.

Start up your IRC-client, choose a network and try to find some way of connecting to a server or network. Our IRC-network is not the most common, so it's probably not in the list of networks that comes with many IRC-clients. Therefore you have to add your own network, just add the server irc.systemshell.net or irc.overloadx.net on port 6667. If you connect to a server directly without specifying a network, use the same addresses/ports. When you are connected to the network, just join our channel #blinkenshell and start chatting with us!

IRC Networks

• ["Systemshells"]

• ["FreeNode"]

• ["IRCnet"]
• ["EFnet"]
• ["Undernet"]
• ["DALnet"]
• ["Quakenet"] (not recommended)

• CategoryInfo