IRC and Security

[Greg Lindahl]

In article <1991Mar14.212436.10526 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>  This is absurd.  People have given you numerous examples of things for which
>IRC has been used that can most assuredly be considered "the spread of
>knowledge".  Its use during the war and its using during the earthquake are
>just two examples.

I might note in passing that IRC can be used in educational ways, but
also writing IRC itself has been quite an education for the people
involved. Ever written a fully-distributed mostly-fault-tolerant
database system in an Internetwork enviornment? Loads of fun, I assure
you.