IRC
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:40 am
As i don't know what IRC is, I presume this means something interesting to someone
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Messaging protocol IRC to be enabled on the ResNet - 28 November 2005
The use of some messaging applications has been made difficult for customers of the ResNet service since the IRC protocol was disabled. This protocol is going to be re-enabled today at 12:00 in response to requests by students who have attended the ResNet Focus Group meetings on Wednesdays at 12:30.
IRC was disabled some time ago in order to resolve an incident. A form of virus seemed to be exploiting this way of communicating on the network and was damaging performance. Since we no longer have evidence that this is the case it is clearly appropriate to re-enable use of IRC. We hope that our customers will find this a useful improvement.
Mon, 28 Nov 2005"
edit : searches google...... ahhhhh.......*now gets it*
"
Messaging protocol IRC to be enabled on the ResNet - 28 November 2005
The use of some messaging applications has been made difficult for customers of the ResNet service since the IRC protocol was disabled. This protocol is going to be re-enabled today at 12:00 in response to requests by students who have attended the ResNet Focus Group meetings on Wednesdays at 12:30.
IRC was disabled some time ago in order to resolve an incident. A form of virus seemed to be exploiting this way of communicating on the network and was damaging performance. Since we no longer have evidence that this is the case it is clearly appropriate to re-enable use of IRC. We hope that our customers will find this a useful improvement.
Mon, 28 Nov 2005"
edit : searches google...... ahhhhh.......*now gets it*