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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:40:06PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > > The sad thing is that IRC has actual positive uses for sharing > information; look at the various help channels (especially on a net like > freenode) for everything from Linux to math to all different types of > programming languages. That's what a lot of people don't understand when > they examine the problem of IRC and botnets, is that YES it has huge > issues but it has legitimate (albeit very under-proportionate to the > number of non-legitimate) uses and users. > > -Drew I didn't mean to put IRC in a bad light, just pointing out that as usual, any good tool can be abused. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203
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