Using IRC

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What is IRC?

IRC is an acronym for Internet Relay Chat. IRC was developed by Jarkko "WiZ" Oikarinen at the University of Oulu, in Finland. IRC is the oldest chat protocol in wide use today. The first IRC network, IRCNet, spawned Eris Free Net (EfNet), which led to thousands of other networks. IRC is an effective way of communicating with people anywhere on the globe.


Why IRC?

  • Real time interaction.
  • Streamlined organization - ability to employ bots to store all attacks and self spells + ops in war. This enables council members and the Monarch to communicate in real time to formulate a 24/7 war strategy if required.
  • Group conversations, Ability to make kingdom announcements.
  • Improved communication with others in the community.
  • Your learning of the game improves exponentially, by discussing with others and learning off (or improving on) other people's playstyles. This is especially true on UtoNet.
  • You choose what level of personal information you are comfortable with giving out. Don't want to give out your personal MSN? Then IRC is the way for you, since you are not required to pass out your personal MSN address!

Do However practise caution. Don't accept unsolicited files from people you do not know. Also ensure you read up on Net Safety.


Ways of Connecting

Java Chat

JAVA IRC
PROS CONS
  • User Friendly Interface as compared to most CGI-IRCs
  • Quick and Easy to connect onto IRC
  • Requires you to load Javascript; in some places this means you require administrative/installation privileges.
JAVA IRC LINKS


IRC@Work or IRC@School

CGI IRC
PROS CONS
  • User Friendly Interface as compared to other CGI-IRCs
  • Do not require you to install any programs
IRC@Work & IRC@School

You can google for other CGI IRCs that allow you access- try using the keywords CGI, IRC, utonet.


Connecting to UtoNet via an IRC Client

IRC Clients
PROS CONS
  • Requires installation of a client program.

IRC Client (Windows)

mIRC

mIRC is a full featured Internet Relay Chat client for Windows that can be used to communicate, share, play or work with others on IRC networks around the world, either in multi-user group conferences or in one-to-one private discussions. It has a clean, practical interface that is highly configurable and supports features such as buddy lists, file transfers, multi-server connections, SSL encryption, proxy support, UTF-8 display, customizable sounds, spoken messages, tray notifications, and message logging.

Download

X-Chat

XChat is a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. It is available for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows (with additional features), Mac OS X (X-Chat Aqua), and for other X Window System-based systems (Fink project). It has a choice of a tabbed document interface or tree interface, support for multiple servers and is highly configurable.

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Chatzilla

ChatZilla provides all the usual IRC client features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and sorting of available channels, logging, and DCC chat and file transfers, plus easy customization with JavaScript plug-ins and CSS styling.

ChatZilla is an add on for Mozilla Firefox which may be customized via JavaScript plug-ins and CSS styling. For it to work, you need to be on the Firefox browser.

Chatzilla add-on page and click 'Add to Firefox'. Once it has loaded, click on install. You will have to restart Firefox.

IRC Client (Mac)

Conversation

Conversation makes chatting on the IRC network as easy as using iChat and other IM clients. Conversation allows you to chat in channels and with your friends in a simple, elegant and Mac-like interface without the use of any text command. Yet it has a comprehensive set of features, some unique to Conversation. Conversation is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Dutch, Japanese, traditional Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian. Conversation is Free.

Download

i r c l e

Ircle is an IRC client developed by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. The client is scriptable with AppleScript, can support multiple channels and servers, and up to ten distinct connections at once. Ircle is shareware.

Download

See Also


External Links

  1. http://www.utonet.org UtoNet official website
  2. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox
  3. http://www.mirc.com mIRC: Windows Chat Client
  4. http://www.silverex.org/news/ X-Chat 2 client for Windows
  5. https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/16 ChatZilla Add On for Firefox
  6. http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation Conversation: Apple Mac Chat Client
  7. http://www.ircle.com/ Ircle: Apple Mac Chat Client