full-disclosure - Why is IRC still around?

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From: poof at fansubber.com (Poof)
Subject: Why is IRC still around?

Wow, NICE analogy Jeff!

While IRC is here to stay... The future seems more like servers that're only
hosted through big companies/etc as most datacenters are 'forbidding' use of
IRC(Ports 6660-6669, 7000) on their network.

Just a thought.

~

> That's because the Internet is free and no one can control what survives
> on
> it. What survives isn't what is *ethical* but what is *useful*. And IRC is
> very useful for some people, so it's here to stay.
> 
> The problem is not IRC; the problem is the misuse some people make of it.
> We
> cannot make knives dissapear, because they are useful; instead, we must
> get
> rid of people that uses knives to kill.