[pct-l] OT - PCT IRC Channel

[Patrick Beggan]

That's irrational fearmongering. If we were on some big network like  
Efnet and half our users were hunting for porn or warez that might be  
the case but on a small network like irc.xkcd.com that's far from the  
case -- there's no bots to even offer downloads. (associated with  
comic http://www.xkcd.com )

IRC itself is no more or less dangerous than e-mail, as a medium, for  
transmission of virii or adware or spam. It's a conversation medium. A  
room and server properly policed offers no danger to its users.

In fact, its safer than e-mail in the case of viruses and spam -- most  
spam and viruses are transmitted by e-mail. Heck, I've never even been  
spammed on an IRC server because I stick to the tame parts.

To call IRC the bottom of the barrel is incorrect. IRC isn't the  
ghetto of the internet, far from it. I think perhaps Postholer has had  
some bad experiences on the bigger networks.


On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Postholer wrote:

> IRC is widely known as the bottom of the barrel for viruses, adware,  
> spam,
> cross-scripting, bots and all unsavory things associated with the  
> internet.
> You've been warned. Some hosting providers won't even allow you to  
> run a IRC
> server because of the nature of it.
>
> That's why I've never even considered associating postholer with an  
> IRC
> service.
>
> -postholer
>
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