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I was surprised to see a discussion about IRC here, but then again, IRC
certainly qualifies as groupware.

IRC is originally a Finnish program that nowadays has developped into
(at least) two different branches, so it is hard to say anything about
its features without knowing what version of who's IRC you are talking
about.

The newest IRC I know about is a proto that IRC's first creator,
Jarkko Oikarinen (known as WiZ in IRC) from Oulu University, Finland
will give out to you to test if you mail him. His email adress is

jto@tolsun.oulu.fi

He could be on holiday now, but usually reads his mail even when
travelling.

You could also try to persuade him to write a brief history for this
group of the two (or more) IRC branches. As IRC is freeware, he won't
probably even know everything that has happened since IRC started
spreading in the US. I would certainly like to know what versions
are out there and how they work or don't work.

There is also at least one American variant of IRC. I have used
several versions of WiZ's "old" IRC and one version of the new
American one (called Irc2, or something like that), and I am very
interested to see, what the newest WiZ-IRC will look/feel like.

Please feel free to comment directly to WiZ, he has been working with
the program again quite a lot lately and has always been glad to see
new ideas and contributions. You can also tell it was me who blew the
whistle. ;-) (We're good frieds)

Paivi

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