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In article <1993Jan4.223256.20364@solace.hsh.se> svarten@solace.hsh.se (Christer Jansson) writes:

>Hi my name is Christer Jansson I am an IRC addict.
>At the writing moment I have been free from IRC since the
>last minutes of 1992.

Hi, Christer! I wish you luck. Last year 3 of us made a New Year's
Resolution to quit IRC, so you've picked a great time to start
quitting.

In article <1993Jan4.232323.22415@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

> Hi, Christer! I wish you luck. Last year 3 of us made a New Year's
> Resolution to quit IRC, so you've picked a great time to start
> quitting.

Congratulations and good luck. Of those three, one lasted a few days,
another a few months and Greg is the only one uf us still going
strong.

But I am not going to give up.

To other addicts: ANY day is a good day to quit wasting one's time.
Don't worry if you are seemingly late for your great resolution..

	Luru

luru@stekt.oulu.fi (Ari Husa) writes:

> To other addicts: ANY day is a good day to quit wasting one's time.
> Don't worry if you are seemingly late for your great resolution..

Yes, I can second that. Quitting IRCing was a bit like just going away
from it naturally, for me. I've been around IRC ever since it was
created but lately -- past year -- I have been quite away from it.
IT's so simple I can't imagine any other way. Lot of thanks belongs to my
girlfriend and that fact that I begun to do something productive instead
of IRCing every night and day. Simply pushed and finally let myself
continue my long time ago stopped studying and working on my life and future.

Simply do it, you can do it, I did it, everybody can do it!

Tommi

tommi@rieska.oulu.fi (Tommi Kaikkonen) writes:
>luru@stekt.oulu.fi (Ari Husa) writes:

>> To other addicts: ANY day is a good day to quit wasting one's time.
>> Don't worry if you are seemingly late for your great resolution..

>Yes, I can second that. Quitting IRCing was a bit like just going away
>from it naturally, for me. I've been around IRC ever since it was
>created but lately -- past year -- I have been quite away from it.
>IT's so simple I can't imagine any other way. Lot of thanks belongs to my
>girlfriend and that fact that I begun to do something productive instead
>of IRCing every night and day. Simply pushed and finally let myself
>continue my long time ago stopped studying and working on my life and future.

>Simply do it, you can do it, I did it, everybody can do it!

>Tommi
That sounds nice, haveing a girlfriend might make it easier.. It is nice
to hear that some people get a life after all. I spoiled my studies pretty
bad for one and a half year, maybe it wont get better by quitting IRC. One
thing I do know, I sure get more things done.
So come on people! Show them that you can do it! Quit IRC. Tomorrow might
be too late. Start doing something usefull.. learn something, program read
books or whatever.. just done spend all nights on IRC chatting.. Conversations
in reallife are much more fun.
It has soon been a week for me without IRC. Right now I am wondering if I can
make one more. I hope so..

-- 
Christer H. Jansson, Solace, Hogskolan Sundsvall/Harnosand, Sweden
E-mail: svarten@solace.hsh.se, lysator.liu.se or abacus.hgs.se
"Elks are the most beautiful animals on this earth"

I know what it was like to be an addict.  I used to be one.  Now I am 
just the occasional user.

I remember spending hours on end connected and chatting with Tommi and 
Ari (hi guys!)  I remember greeting them at Christmas and New Years.
The friends made were wonderful!  The chance to communicate to people
half-way around the world was a rush for me.

Of course, as someone mentioned, the grades began to slide.  I struggled.
I had a hard time trying to pull myself away from the computer and 
focusing on my studies.  heck, I even did a take home final while chatting
with other folks.

Now all that is over and done with.  I survived my studies, but not without
taking some damage.  Now the reason that I am on at all is all this time
I have on my hands since the world seems to be in a recession and jobs are 
hard to come by.  I'm caught in that catch-22: no experience? no job, but
how can one get the experience without the job?  You know what I mean?

Alas, IRC serves its purpose both for good and evil (evil in the sense that
it's a vice for some of us, like smoking or something).  I can't say that I 
regretted using IRC, yet I can't say that I am happy to have used it either.

There you have it folks, my $0.02 worth.


- bunny

-- 
= Eva Chan 		| Never lose my youth, I hope it never ends. =
= bunny@gnu.ai.mit.edu	| Hope I never lose my wallet!               =
= on IRC: bunny 	|	- Bosstones			     =
=			| 					     =
--
	Andre Berthiaume 	 |  "Sometimes you're the windshield,
				 |   Sometimes you're the bug"
    berthiau@iro.umontreal.ca    |			
				 |	       Dire Straits, The Bug

On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:14:19 GMT, berthiau@iro.umontreal.ca (Eva Chan) said:

E> Of course, as someone mentioned, the grades began to slide.  I struggled.
E> I had a hard time trying to pull myself away from the computer and 
E> focusing on my studies.  heck, I even did a take home final while chatting
E> with other folks.

	I *still* don't understand this.  Bunny can attest that through
the last 2 years at BU I spent *most* of my time outside classes online
(the remainder was spent at work or watching ST:TNG) -- and I still
averaged a 3.95 in major, 3.83 overall...

	I guess people have to master the art of doing several things at
once.  I used to sit with 2 active terms (this was before the
installation of such niceties as Xterms), doing homework and IRCing
simultaneously... or I'd do some reading, too; or maybe write a paper...

-- Cerebus <tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
"Unrepentant and unembarrassed."
 

tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) writes:

>	I *still* don't understand this.  Bunny can attest that through
>the last 2 years at BU I spent *most* of my time outside classes online
>(the remainder was spent at work or watching ST:TNG) -- and I still
>averaged a 3.95 in major, 3.83 overall...

>	I guess people have to master the art of doing several things at
>once.  I used to sit with 2 active terms (this was before the
>installation of such niceties as Xterms), doing homework and IRCing
>simultaneously... or I'd do some reading, too; or maybe write a paper...

>-- Cerebus <tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
>"Unrepentant and unembarrassed."
> 

Well, not meaning to rag on it, but Tim, you have to remember that I 
was in engineering and you in CS.  *shrug*  That may or may not have 
been the difference.  I had quite a bit of work that did not require
me to sit in front of a terminal.  Ergo, the terminal ended up more 
as a distraction to my work.  Sure you had papers to do too, but you
did it on Unix.  I did mine on a wordprocessor at home (but then I 
really didn't have that many papers to write).

Oh well... Take this for all it's worth.

- bunny

-- 
= Eva Chan 		| Never lose my youth, I hope it never ends. =
= bunny@gnu.ai.mit.edu	| Hope I never lose my wallet!               =
= on IRC: bunny 	|	- Bosstones			     =
=			| 					     =
--
	Andre Berthiaume 	 |  "Sometimes you're the windshield,
				 |   Sometimes you're the bug"
    berthiau@iro.umontreal.ca    |			
				 |	       Dire Straits, The Bug

TM> == Tim Miller <tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>

 TM> 	I *still* don't understand this.  Bunny can attest that through the
 TM> last 2 years at BU I spent *most* of my time outside classes online
 TM> (the remainder was spent at work or watching ST:TNG) -- and I still
 TM> averaged a 3.95 in major, 3.83 overall...

Heck, even some of the time putatively *inside* classes was spent online;
remember CS113?  "Hey, let's go play pinball."

 TM> 	I guess people have to master the art of doing several things at
 TM> once.  I used to sit with 2 active terms (this was before the
 TM> installation of such niceties as Xterms), doing homework and IRCing
 TM> simultaneously... or I'd do some reading, too; or maybe write a
 TM> paper...

Ah, VT-Windows... :)
--
Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>

Doing many things at once may be a positive thing. Also, doing many
things at once might be very bad. It all just depends on can you master
what you are doing. If you have no difficulties studying and working
it is fine. But for lot of IRC users doing IRC is the most dangerous
hole they can push themself... maybe never getting up. You just watch
the same walls over and over again and the world seems so closed...
in the beginning it was so open and instanous -- free and thrilling.

I say, don't do drugs, don't IRC too much.

IRCing while doing something connected to your work or studies is
very good. But to turn it over: doing some work while IRCing is BAD.

Master your life, control your behaviour. Don't let things go by.
This is your life, do you want to be a vegetable connected to
terminal all the nights and sleep all the days??? Really? Surely NOT!

SO, this message is to all of you who are now thinking of their
"personal problem": Help yourself and the world helps you :-).
If you just give it a chance it will give you a lot in return!

Go out, meet people. Go to lessons, go to work. Get busy. Go shopping.
By an orange and eat it. Feel what real life is and soon you will unlearn
the "automatic behavior to log on IRC every night".

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!

Tommi