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This is an old revision of TheLounge made by JavaWoman on 2004-12-10 17:30:26.

 

Welcome to The Wikka Lounge


An IRC channel has been setup for discussing Wikka..... and idling. :)

Point your favorite IRC client to:
irc.freenode.net
Or check the list of freenode servers.

Channel: #wikka

As always, feedback and comments welcome.


See below for:


Getting an IRC client


Windows

NOTE: The legality of the "shareware" release of X-Chat (which is GPL) is being hotly debated; at least the free distributions are legal. The "SilvereX" distribution seems to be the most used (and I use it myself); it supports plugins, too. More links to free versions here: http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=597 --JavaWoman

Mac OS X

NOTE: Any open source client running under *nix can normally be installed under Mac OS X. See the Fink Project for more infos

Fedora/Red Hat

Mandrake

GNU/Linux

more...


What is IRC and getting (more) help



Registering your IRC nickname

Your nick is how people on freenode know you. If you register it, you'll be able to use the same nick over and over. If you don't register, someone else may end up registering the nick you want. So, make sure you register your nickname with NickServ; see the registration instructions. (Make sure you remember the password you choose!) It helps, of course, if your nickname on Freenode.net is the same as your Wikka username, but that is not required.


Leaving messages

The Freenode.net servers also provide a neat and useful service: we can leave messages for each other! That's very useful for a group like us with members around the globe, living and working in different timezones. This service is known as MemoServ.

For starters, make sure you register your nickname with NickServ - see above. In theory, you can leave a message for a channel, but in practice, most people can only leave a message for another person - and you have to know that person's nickname; if the intended recipient logs on with a different nickname, (s)he won't see the message.

You will only receive a notification you have a message intended for you (your nick) when you log on when you have your NOTIFY on. (How you do that, depends on the client you use - it seems to be the default in X-Chat.) Leaving and reading messages is quite simple, and you can get instructions by typing
/msg MemoServe help
and follow further instructions from there. To make things a little simpler to learn, I've summarized the help info for MemoServe on a TheLoungeLeavingMessages separate page.
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