Re: [native-lang] UPDATE: Get Started with IRC

Hello Daniel, 

Sorry I wasn't available yesterday. I'd like to thank Ian for the
presentation and you for the good maintenance job. 
As for the IRC client I usually use XChat or Chatzilla, but I didn't
know Gaim could handle the IRC protocols...?

Charles.


On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 05:26 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Due to popular demand, I have added instructions on how to get started on 
> IRC. If you go to the conferences home page now...
> 
> http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/
> 
> You will see a link to instructions on how to get started with IRC:
> 
> http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/get-started.html
> 
> There are many IRC clients. For these instructions I chose Gaim because:
> 
>  * It's probably the easiest to use.
>  * Gaim is cross-platform (it even runs on Solaris!).
>  * It's very mature.
>  * Gaim looks beautiful!  :-)
>  * It also understands many other protocols, like AIM, ICQ, MSN and 
>    Jabber. So you can just learn one program and use it for everything.
>  * For the security conscious, Gaim also has an OTR plugin:
>    http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
> 
> 
> I would be happy to post either translations of this mini tutorial, or 
> alternate tutorials using different IRC clients.
> 
> Cheers,