On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:40:57 -0700, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 04:50:32 GMT, sf > wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:49:35 -0700, Christine Dabney
> > wrote:
> >
> >> There is no jump.
> >>
> >> Mirc is a way to get to IRC. Not a jump.
> >
> >The jump is "the way". It used to be plain IRC. Now it's
> >MIRC and there is a gap that I've never managed to forge.
>
> I just thought of an analogy.
>
> IRC is a network,

I knew that.

> and one has to use a program/client to access it. A
> lot of people use Mirc,

I know I had to download it, so that make it a program.

> but there are others as well.
>
mIRC is the ONLY program I know of to access IRC (I don't
have computer geek friends) and I really thought mIRC had a
corner on the market.

> Same as the newsgroups/usenet. I use Agent, but others use other
> programs. Same type of idea.
>
I guess my old isp had an internal program that made it
waaay tooo easy for me to access irc, so when mIRC was
virtually the only Big Dog around - I got turned off to
internet relay chat (not meaning AIM/MSN chat).
Unfortunately, I never enjoyed using mIRC (on the occasions
I could get where I wanted to go).... or else I wouldn't be
complaining.

> Does it click now?

Yes. Thanks for cluing me into the fact that there are
CHOICES out there.
>
> Or do you just not want to learn to use a program to access IRC?

I'm open to anything EXCEPT mIRC, Ms. Smarty Pants - so list
some for me. Idiot proof programs are best, of course.




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