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