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From: What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject: Re: Shadowrun on irc...
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 10:09:27 -0400
>Just thought I'd better point out that EFnet and Undernet aren't actual
>physical networks, like, say, BITNET and the Internet. They're just the names
>given to the server networks for each system...
>Both use the same programs, and, if you're running a client on one net, you
>can connect it to the other network by simply changing servers...
>

Thanx i failed to mention that...

>EFnet has about 4000 users, while I've heard that Undernet has about 200, max.
>However, EFnet suffers greatly from a problem known as netsplits, where links
>between servers die, breaking EFnet in two, so that there are efeectively two
>Efnets...

Undernet suffers from netsplits too...but also has less lag and users making it
a fledgling network.

>I hang out on irc most of the time I'm on a computer, whether I'm talking or
>not (X-window is a wonderful thing! ;) and I'm organising a Shadowrun campaign
>at the moment... My bot, Cyberbot, "possesses" channels #Shadowrun, #Matrix,
>and #Shadowlands, which is where shadowrunners would normally end up, on irc,
>not that there are that many...
>
>Anyway, if you're on, do a /whois Dodger, and message me... especially if you
>have any questions, or want to join in the campaign.


You're Dodger??? every time i see you your never there like you are AFK..i've
bee on the EFNet a few time and every time I see you i never get a
response...which of those channels is most in habbited?

--Phlatline

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