Re: Open telnet clients

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From: Jay Vassos-Libove
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 21:36

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Open telnet clients are meant for only a very small number of uses:

* people who absolutely can not do it any other way, but are not
  prohibited from doing it;
* people who want to try it out before they make the investment
  in getting a client set up locally;
* people who normally use it in a more local fashion, but temporarily
  find that something has broken so that they need a different way
  to access it.

Any other use actually pretty much constitutes a violation of whatever
rules exist to prevent you from using IRC.

That being said, if your school, company, etc... rules allow you to
use IRC, then your best bet IS to find a local client.

To Catherine Tan in particular, what hardware problems are you
experiencing? There are IRC clients for the IBM mainframe O/S'es,
for VAX/VMS, for all UNIXes, and even for PCs and Macs, so long
as they have TCP/IP loaded on to them.  If your site lacks for
TCP/IP, then you're not going to be able to telnet to a "client-
server" anyway.

-Jay

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