Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!not-for-mail From: Ted Heise Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: Re: [slrn] Test for slrn IRC channel... Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 11:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: My own, such as it is Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20210524163330.767@skamandros.andrews-corner.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1621942982 28375 166.84.1.2 (25 May 2021 11:43:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 11:43:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (NetBSD) Bytes: 1902 On 24 May 2021 23:41:40 GMT, andrew wrote: > Pending JED being happy and also pending final approval by the > new Libera.Chat admins I have created #slrn on libera. The old > #slrn on Freenode was registered by Michael Prokop but has not > seen much action for a long time. So perhaps this will be > useful? > > I will keep it going for a few weeks anyway and see if it > addresses a need. Details for about the new libera IRC servers, > and connecting with SASL, can be found here: > > https://libera.chat/ > > Perhaps see you there? Nice idea, Andrew. I tried the following: bash-5.1$ irc -R irc.libera.chat:6697 *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.freenode.net and it just stalled there. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? It's been ages since I poked around on irc, so the process is no longer familiar. To be honest, I'm not sure the user base is large enough to generate any worthwhile traffic. I'm a longtime user, but with precious little time these days for things like irc chat. -- Ted Heise West Lafayette, IN, USA