HW: irc channel

[Moonglum]

My version of instructions for getting onto IRC.  Someone else has actually
used these and succeeded so I feel justified in posting them :-)

1.  Download the MIRC32 client from http://www.mirc.com
2.  Install the client
3.  Go online via your usual (dial-up) connection
4.  Start MIRC32 (from desktop icon, programs menu or command line)
5.  When the stupid author's info dialog box comes up, click the 'x' icon in
the top right hand corner to get rid of it
6.  In mIRC options dialog box, set IRC Servers to DALnet
7.  In 2nd drop-down field select DALnet: EU, UK, London, or whatever's
geographically closest to you (this is just a list of servers for the
previous selection)
8.  Complete the name fields.  Make sure you give yourself a decent nickname
& alternative otherwise you end up appearing as guest5463734 or something.
Some nicknames are already registered, try alternative spellings if the one
you want isn't available.
9.  From the menu select File;Connect
10.  In mIRC Channels dialog box type in #Hawkwind.org.uk  (it doesn't
appear in the list of channels)
11.  Click on the Join button
12.  A new window opens & you're there

Having said all this, mIRC is a crap client (look at the number of times you
have to click things and select things and type things before you can get
on) and Rik, the Mission Control webmaster, is putting together an IRC
client which will take you straight into #hawkwind.org.uk.  When that's
available it will be much better.

Minor facts about using (m)IRC:
-------------------------------------------
Sometimes the #hawkwind.org.uk window opens and doesn't look right.  Wait
for a minute or 2 and it should refresh with the Chanserv header
information, which gives you the message "\'\'elcome to Mission Control"

Sometimes it's difficult to connect.  The mIRC client will keep retrying for
you, you will eventually get in.

Also, IRC just seems to crap out on you sometimes for no apparent reason.
All you can do is reconnect.

Every 20 or so uses, a message comes up about using an unregistered copy,
your browser is invoked and you are taken to www.mirc.com so you can
register and pay the author $20.  I wouldn't recommend to anyone that they
should register or pay, due to the poor user interface of mIRC.  You can
just close the browser and carry on with the mIRC client....;>)

Hope to see you there

Moonglum

----- Original Message -----

From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: 13 June 2001 03:14
Subject: Re: HW: irc channel


> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, M Holmes wrote:
>
> > Could someone post an idiot's step by step, guide on how to do this for
> > those of us who wouldn't know a chatroom from the inside of the Tardis?
>
>         Maybe. Try this.
>
> (1) Locate and install an IRC client. I'm using the one Rik recommended,
> mIRC, which I think is free to download at <http://www.mirc.com> but
> I may remember wrong. It runs under Windows and is 16-bit or
> Win32s-capable, I don't know which. If it goes on my machine no-one else
> should have a problem with it.
>
> (2) configure the various user options, especially the nickname; mIRC
> seems to have fairly sensible defaults but some things it obviously needs
> to know.
>
> (3) dial up, if you do, and connect to an IRC server; mIRC gives you a
> lists, several of which selected a random server on a particular
> network. I use "Random EU DALnet server" and that works for me.
>
> (3) when it connects to the server, add the channel #hawkwind.org.uk to
> the list you get given, and click join once it's listed.
>
> (4) type as you would on a talker: conventions include using ; as a
> prefix to emoting, so that typing "this is pants compared to
> Usenet" (quotes mine) gets you, e.g. "fofp `this is pants compared to
> Usenet" in the channel window, but ";thinks this is pants compared to
> Usenet" gets you "fofp thinks this is pants compared to Usenet".
>
> (5) this is what makes AOL and WebTV great remember; how hard can it be?
>
> > Us old-timers use usenet doncha know.
>
>         Not anywhere I do you don't... Yours,
>                                               Jon
> --
>        Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>    =====================================================================
>   "There is a certain pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know"
>