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Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com> wrote:

> Oops, sorry.  I got that idea because of the following article which was
> posted in one of the local newsgroups here at Halcyon (my provider):

>>Newsgroups: halcyon.slip
>>Subject: Re: TIA

>>And if you want to use IRC, you're still out of luck; it will work with
>>true SLIP, but it won't work on here just with TIA.

How can they stop you from connecting your desktop machine to a port on a
remote machine, namely port 6667 of any IRC server you can find?

TIA SHOULD send your packets wherever you ask it to (but the machine on
the other end has to agree to talk with you.)  I get my IRC service from a
lot of machines, and don't see how Halcyon could stop this, unless they
have licensed a modified version of TIA, I suppose.  In which case, stop
using other people's software and buy your own.

> curious: Does anyone know if there are any tcp/ip apps that won't
> run over TIA?  And does the answer depend on the tcp/ip apps that
> run on your shell account?

The answer is yes, and has nothing to do with what will and won't run on
your shell account, and everything to do with what machines on the Net are
willing to talk with you.  Some machines won't talk with you unless it can
look up your domain name, and some software won't talk at all over TIA.

Now the $64 question: have you compiled an IRC client of your own, inside
your shell account, and tried to run that?  Many sites from which you
"can't run IRC" are simply refusing to provide a client, and users can run
IRC jsut fine if they compile their own.

~ Kiran "NO soft links to anyone else's software" <groo@netcom.com>

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