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[Zeth]

On 4 August 2010 14:08, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 04/08/2010 14:05, Zeth wrote:
>>
>> On 4 August 2010 12:41, Nicholas Tollervey<ntoll at ntoll.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm with Tim: +1 many thanks to Zeth for this (and apologies for outing
>>> us ;-)
>>
>> No problem, shall we do the 17th instead then?
>
> Unless I missed it, you didn't actually give an IRC channel.

You are right as always Tim, and the email saying that someone
couldn't do the 19th I somehow missed from the thread.

We can hijack europython @ irc.freenode.net

I have gone against my own argument by using a medium that people may
not understand, so here is the explanation:

IRC stands for internet relay chat. It is a text-based real time
protocol from the 1980s and 1990s, and still popular today. You need
an IRC client.

For any platform: if you have Firefox you can use Chatzilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16/

If you have never used IRC before, it would be good to test your
client beforehand, then if you have problems, you can email this list
and we can try to help you.

If you are using Linux, then you probably already have a client, such
as Empathy or Pidgin. Try typing empathy into a terminal. I use irssi
which is a terminal based client. There are dozens of free clients
available for any type of computing device. You could even roll your
own thing using twisted:
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/8.2.0/api/twisted.words.protocols.irc.IRCClient.html

Best Wishes,
Zeth