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Abjects • AbleNET • AfterNET • Aitvaras • AusIRC • AustIRC • AustNet • Blitzed • BRASnet • DALnet • Delinked • DeltaAnime • EFnet • EsperNet • freenode • Gamma Force • GamesNET • GameSurge • IRCHighway • IRCnet • LinkNet • NetGamers • Open and Free Technology Community • QuakeNet Rizon • SlashNET • UKChatterbox • UniBG • Undernet • ZiRC Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... Abjects is an unmoderated, mid-sized Internet Relay Chat Network. ... AbleNET is an IRC network. ... AfterNET is an IRC network and was founded in September 1996. ... Aitvaras is a popular Lithuanian IRC network. ... The AusIRC Network is fully serviced Australian IRC Network for the Australian Community, feel free to connect to irc. ... AustIRC is an IRC network which provides a more friendly and secure alternative to many other IRC networks such as DALnet and EFNet. ... AustNet or austnet is an IRC network which aims to provide a friendly and secure alternative to other IRC networks such as DALnet and EFNet. ... Blitzed is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network founded on October 31st, 2000 in response to the collapse of WreckedNet. ... BRASnet is the largest IRC network in Brazil, founded in early 1996 (when the Internet was in its early stages in the country). ... DALnet is an Internet relay chat (IRC) network founded in July 1994 by members of the EFnet #startrek channel. ... Delinked is an Internet Relay Chat network, founded in early 2003 on the premise of providing users with a unique chatting experience, free of the abuse from users and network operators often found on other networks. ... DeltaAnime (sometimes referred to as DAnet) is an anime and Ragnarok Online oriented IRC Network, web host and Bit-torrenttracker. ... EsperNet, often referred to as Esper. ... The title of this article should be freenode. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... GamesNET is an Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the Internet gaming community. ... GameSurge is a popular Internet Relay Chat network devoted to the online multiplayer gaming community. ... // History IRCHighway is a large IRC-network with over 10,000 users connected every day. ... IRCnet is one of the largest IRC networks. ... LinkNet is a secure IRC-network that support SSL-encryption. ... // Introduction NetGamers is a medium-sized network, with servers across Europe and N.America, with an average of about 2000 concurrent users, which rises depending on the popularity of its partner games. ... The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) is an IRC network founded in 2001. ... QuakeNet is the largest IRC network, with its average number of users close to 145,000 every day and over 180,000 channels. ... Rizon is a large IRC network, popular perhaps due to the allowance of channels for sharing warez and other copyrighted material for free. ... SlashNET is a medium-sized, independently-operated Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. ... UKChatterbox is a popular IRC based chat and forum site. ... UniBG also referred to as University BG or sometimes United BG is the largest Bulgarian IRC network. ... The Undernet is one of the largest IRC networks. ... Zirc is a town in VeszprÃ©m county, Hungary. ...

EFnet or Eris Free network is a major IRC network, with over 70,000 users. It is the modern-day descendant of the original IRC network. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. ...

Initially, most IRC servers formed a single network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels or servers. When, in August 1990, server eris.berkeley.edu remained the only one to allow anyone to connect servers, IRC server operator Greg Lindahl ("wumpus") broke away to start EFnet. The resulting argument split the IRC community of admins into EFnet and A-net (Anarchy Network), but A-net soon vanished, leaving EFnet as the only IRC network.

Continuing problems with performance and abuse eventually led to the rise of another major IRC network, Undernet, which split off in October 1992. The Undernet is one of the largest IRC networks. ...

In July 1996, disagreement on policy caused EFnet to break in two: the slightly larger European half (including Australia and Japan) formed IRCnet, while the American servers continued as EFnet. This was widely known as the Great Split. IRCnet is one of the largest IRC networks. ...

EFnet is probably the least "unified" IRC network, with large variations in server rules and policy between different servers. There are three major regions on EFnet which each have their own policy structure. They are EU, CA, and US. Each region votes on its own server applications. However, central policies are voted upon by the admin community. An archive of previous votes can be found at the EFnet voting site. Motto: (Latin for From Sea to Sea) Anthem: O Canada Royal anthem: God Save the Queen Capital Ottawa Largest city Toronto Official languages English, French Government Parliamentary democracy and federal constitutional monarchy - Monarch Queen Elizabeth II - Governor General MichaÃ«lle Jean - Prime Minister Stephen Harper Establishment - British North America Act... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

IRC clients can connect to EFnet via irc.efnet.org, which will route you to a random IRC server, or clients may choose to connect directly to the closest IRC server from the list below.

In July 2001, a service called CHANFIX (originally named JUPES) was created, which is designed to give back ops to channels which have lost ops or been taken over. In the case of having no ops CHANFIX will automatically join the channel and op people who fit the requirements.

For a takeover, a request must be made for a manual activation of CHANFIX. Once connected to EFnet, a user can find an IRC operator with the command: /stats p; only IRC Administrators are able to request manual CHANFIX activation. An IRC channel takeover is an acquisition of IRC channel operator status by someone other than the channels owner. ... An IRC operator is a user on an Internet Relay Chat network who has privileged access. ...

EFnet channel operators are free to run their channels however they see fit without EFnet IRCops stepping on their toes. The EFnet IRCops are primarily there to keep all the servers on the network connected, and not to interfere in channel issues.

EFnet Servers

Only a handful of servers on EFnet support IPv6. They are: Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ...

EFnet Servers

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