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ircetiquette.txt (2722B)
      1 HOW TO BEHAVE ON IRC
      2 
      3 Authors:      Lea Viljanen (LadyBug)  viljanen@kreeta.helsinki.fi
      4               Ari Husa     (luru)     so-luru@tolsun.oulu.fi 
      5 Revised, March 1994:  Helen Rose  (Trillian)  hrose@kei.com
      6 
      7 1) Language
      8 
      9    The most widely understood and spoken language on IRC is English. 
     10 However! As IRC is used in many different countries, English is by
     11 no means the only language. If you want to speak some other language
     12 than English (for example with your friends), go to a separate channel
     13 and set the topic (with /topic) to indicate that. For example
     14    /topic #channelname Finnish only!
     15 would mean that this channel would be reserved for Finnish discussion.
     16 On the other hand, you should check the topic (with /list command) 
     17 before you move to a channel to see if there are any restrictions about 
     18 language.
     19    On a channel not restricted by /topic, please speak a language
     20 everybody can understand. If you want to do otherwise, change channels
     21 and set the topic accordingly.
     22 
     23 
     24 2) Hello/Goodbye
     25 
     26    It's not necessary to greet everybody on a channel personally.
     27 Usually one "Hello" or equivalent is enough. And don't expect everybody
     28 to greet you back. On a channel with 20 people that would mean one
     29 screenful of hellos. It's sensible not to greet, in order not to be rude
     30 to the rest of the channel. If you must say hello, do it with a private /msg.
     31 The same applies to goodbyes.
     32 
     33 
     34 3) Discussion
     35 
     36    When you come to a new channel it's advised you to listen
     37 for a while to get an impression of what's discussed. Please feel free
     38 to join in, but do not try to force your topic into the discussion
     39 if that doesn't come naturally.
     40 
     41 
     42 4) {}|[]\
     43 
     44    IRC has quite a lot of people from Scandinavian countries,
     45 the above characters are letters in their alphabet. This 
     46 has been explained on IRC about a thousand and one times, so
     47 read the following, do not ask it on IRC:
     48 
     49    {     is an A with 2 dots over it
     50    }     is an A with a small circle above it
     51    |     is either an O with 2 dots over it or an O with a dash (/) through it
     52    [, ], and \ are the preceding three letters in upper case.
     53 
     54    There are a lot of people from Japan as well, who use Kanji characters
     55 which may look quite exotic as well. As I don't know Kanji I don't
     56 even try to explain any of the characters.
     57 
     58 5) ATTENTION!
     59 
     60    Remember, people on IRC form their opinions about you only by 
     61 your actions, writings and comments on IRC. So think before you type.
     62 Do not "dump" to a channel or user (send large amounts of unwanted
     63 information). This is likely to get you /kicked off the channel or
     64 /killed off from irc. Dumping causes network 'burps', connections going
     65 down because servers cannot handle the large amount of traffic any more.