Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ dapunka on Tuesday 24 July 2007 20:46 : \____
>
>> As I relatively newcomer to the internet, I'm interested in a lot of
>> what goes on here. I wanted to check out IRC, so I installed the x-
>> chat client (and gnome interface) and had a look round.
>>
>> There are channels out there, but the great majority of them seem to
>> be silent. There are users in the channels, but there's no chat
>> going on - unless it's just private chat betweeen friends on the
>> channel.
>>
>> I log on, and make a "Hi there" kind of post... I suggest possible
>> subjects that maybe someone might like to chat about... but it seems
>> no one wants to know?
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong? Or is IRC dying out?
>
> This death is greatly exaggerated. Some say newsgroups (USENET) have
> died because of moderatted online forums.
>
> Some say E-mail is officially dead because of SPAM,.
>
> Some even give up on IM, but it's apparently live and well.
>
> Hey, even SCO is still around, so perhaps we should stop listening to
> Microsoft too. Some months ago it said that Linux would be dead in
> 2007. Then came all the OEMs, which began installing Linux on their
> PCs.
Why revert everything back to "Microsoft"? This was a viable OT post that
you have ruined.
--
Mike
Scottish....and proud of it
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