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A client/server protocol where IRC clients can connect to an IRC server and "chat." There are several networks of these computers, and there are thousands of channels (or rooms) and hundreds of thousands of people. There is a channel for any interest you could have--it is simply a matter of finding the name. You need to use an IRC client to get to the channels, but as long as you have an Internet connection you can get h
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Internet Relay Chat - On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:17:18 -0500, Monty Solomon posted the followingto comp.dcom.telecom: System Flaws Snare Some Requests to Transfer Phone Numbers By Yuki Noguchi Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 12, 2003; Page E05 Brian Weaver and his wife accumulated eight phone numbers over the years because of relocations, personal and business phones, and cell phones. So when telephone regulators decided he could transfer those numbers, he tried to simplify it all by switching three of his old home-phone numbers to cell phones, and transferring a cell-phone number to his home in Potomac -- ridding himself of three of his eight phone lines. Two and a half weeks after making his transfer request, Weaver remains in phone-number hell.Anyone who switches over three wireline phones to cellular and onecellular to wireline, at the same time, at the start of wirelessportability, after extensive press coverage of the fact that there willbe problems at the outset, is nuts. All his business calls, as well as his wife's, are being misrouted to their nanny. Tina Virzi Weaver's cell phone inexplicably lost service for more than a week. As a result, they've both missed key business meetings.And, anyone who includes critical business lines among those switchedduring the initial period deserves what he gets.Michael D. SullivanBethesda, MD, USADelete nospam from my address and it won't work.
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