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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by u801e on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:45PM (#17382369)
It does require that one open a port in their firewall for it to actually work. xdcc bots usually would indicate which port one needed to open.
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by coatmatter on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:42PM (#17383027)
Having open ports directly to the internet (by default) with dial up modems (before routers and NAT) used to be such a common practice. Things have changed, haven't they?
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by freeflight on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:15PM (#17384421)
That's a pretty good point I totally forgot about. Tho couldn't that problem "simply" be solved by updating the protocol to account for these changes?
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