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From: Trooper
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 00:00

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 In article <1997020402364952463@tachyon.demon.co.uk>
  frank@SPAMBLOCK_REMOVE_TO_REPLYtachyon.co.uk (Frank Charlton) wrote:-

>Trooper <philip@bengio.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Anyone know what happens when you are logged on to an irc channel and before
>> leaving your computer locks up,You have to reboot and then try and rejoin
>> the channel, your nick is then being used because you did not leave in the
>> corret way befory.
>
>Yeah, that happens often. Basically, the IRC server doesn't know that
>you're not actually connected. The 'ghost' of you will disappear after a
>few minutes, with a message like :
>
>signoff: Nick (Ping Timeout)
>
>or similar. Nothing you can do about it but use an alternative nick
>until this happens, then change nicks with /nick newnick.
>
>ATB, Frank.
>
Thanks Frank,
Wondered what all those demons pinging me were,Now I know.I also noticed that 
my old nick arrived in place of my new one,Is that possiable.Or was it me just
doing something stupid. 
regards
 
Phil


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Date: 1997/02/04
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