Hi<br><br>Try <a href="http://irc.netsplit.de">http://irc.netsplit.de</a><br><br>Ninad<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com">
geekboy@angrykeyboarder.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dimitri Mallis spake thusly on 11/01/2006 02:49 PM:
<br>> hi all<br>><br>> is there a web site with a list of irc servers &/or there channels, to<br>> get help on any topic/ random topics.<br>> kind of like a irc only search engine?<br>> doesn't have to be ubuntu or Linux related or even related to computers.
<br>><br>> I'm looking for a web site with such a list & i have been googling but<br>> most search strings i try fill the search result with mIRC web links<br>><br><br>There are scads of IRC networks and each has scads of channels related
<br>to different topics. On most networks anybody can start their own<br>channel, call it anything they like and use it for anything they like<br>(as long as the network allows/tolerates it).<br><br>Therefore it's pretty hard to pin down topic across IRC in general.
<br>Your best bet is to make use of the "/list" command on a given network.<br> It will give you a list of all the channels in use (unless they're<br>invisible). Some channels are invite only. And if there's a topic,
<br>you'll find a channel for it. Be warned....<br><br>However, some networks are dedicated to certain topics (and sub-topics)<br>as a whole. Freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net) being one of them. That's<br>the network that
<a href="http://irc.ubuntu.com">irc.ubuntu.com</a> is part of. Freenode is dedicated to<br>Open Source. You'll find a large number of Linux distributions with<br>channels there. There's also a large number of individual (non-Linux)
<br>channels (e.g. KDE).<br><br>Again the "/list" command (without the quotes) will show you what's up.<br><br>If you're new to IRC, I'd recommend checking out <a href="http://irchelp.org">http://irchelp.org</a>
.<br>Some of the information there is a bit dated and is also EFNet-centric<br>(EFNet is one of the oldest IRC networks) but there's still a lot of<br>good information there.<br><br><br><br>--<br> Scott | Ubuntu.
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