[Technical] Using IRC for student development collaboration

[Con Zymaris]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:12:03AM +1000, Mark Snell wrote:
> Con,
> 
> because as a general rule the appropriate ports are blocked at the router 
> for most government schools, and especially at the moment, since they lost 
> the contract to Telstra, AAPT have been a little tardy in getting anything 
> done to the routers.
> 


I guess I didn't make this clear. Most Linux installs ship with an IRC 
server, built in. Merely switch it on and you have your own, private, 
class/lab IRC server.

This removes any legal/privacy/liability issues as well as network issues 
you mention above.

I'd be surprised if there aren't free Windows IRC server you could install 
too.

Cheers,

Con Zymaris

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