_before_ (kind of) IRC - was classic email...

From: Matt London <matt_at_knm.yi.org>
Date: Fri Aug 17 13:10:37 2001

Hi,

> >> "Real life is full of idiots, and tons of ads. I don't see how IRC is
> >> any different, other than a lot more people want to have sex with
> >> you."
> >> -- m3000
> >>
> >
> > I remember when you could chat online (in my case, Compuserve) with
> > intelligent people... Umm.. And you only got 20 hours a month. :(
>
> There are still intelligent people on IRC and other chat systems. It's
> just very hard to find them. I gave up on IRC for many years, until I
> discovered #perl on EFnet (which has since moved to Magnet). I learned a
> lot about perl there, met some very cool folks. We have that ellusive
> "community" that the 'net was supposed to give us.
>
> But I agree that most of IRC is painful.

IRC's not so bad :&) I spent far too much time on IRC myself...
...openprojects.net for one - frienly constructive place :&)

-- Matt

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