Hard times for Undernet’s CService with the loss of a second member this year.
“Tuesday night, our good friend and Channel Service Admin, skewll aka Tonie left us. She was suffering from a serious pneumonia but as we knew, she was improving”, ColdAs1ce announced yesterday on the Undernet website.
A thread has been opened on the Undernet forum for those who like to express their feelings.
“A federal investigation has led to the arrest of a Clinton man accused of distributing child pornography on the Internet”, this article in the Quad-City Times Newspaper starts.
He was advertising the file-server as a “Pre-teen and teen girl pics” on IRC.
“Today I received a query with the sad news that John aka jwpara has passed away”, CService coordinator LordLuke announced today on the Undernet news page.
JwPara has undergone surgery a few months ago. “Actually I expected his return every day now” LordLuke continues.
“I joined our org around the same time as John and have always loved working and talking with him. He’ll be seriously missed by me and a lot of other people from the Undernet community.”
Those who like to express their feelings can do so on the Undernet forum where a thread has been opened in the memory of JwPara.
It seems that Paul Mutton (jibble.org, PieSpy bot, O’Reilly’s “IRC Hacks”) and I share a mutual opinion on how negative IRC is constantly portrayed in the regular press.
“… It always gets me riled when journalists and news reporters persistently portray IRC as some kind of hacker’s playground, where illegal software and and credit card numbers are used as a virtual currency. I set myself the mission of disproving this portrayal”, Paul starts in this article on his website.
Paul explains how IRC is being used in academic usages (I personally manage two IRC channels which is in use by spaceweather scientists and enthusiasts) and the open source community for example.
“Our development committee is currently testing our new IPv6 IRC server located at ipv6.gamesurge.net. If you have an IPv6 connection you might want to download this patch for Mirc that will allow you to connect to GameSurge via the IPv6 protocol”, the GameSurge website reports.
IPv6 support is one of the new features of ircu2.10.12, the IRC deamon which is also in use on the Undernet network.
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