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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: [slrn] Test for slrn IRC channel...
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 11:43:02 +0000 (UTC)
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On 24 May 2021 23:41:40 GMT,
  andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid> 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      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA