Be respectful to other chatters, don??™t
write in flashing ALL CAPS (even if you want to show off all the things your client can
do), and ignore the idiots who act inappropriately.
To leave a channel, use the /LEAVE
command. To end your IRC session, type
/QUIT.
Linux Instant Messaging
Instant messaging should be much simpler than IRC, and it can be. The central problem
is the multitude of proprietary IM protocols. The three dominant players??”AOL Instant
Messenger/ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger??”all use different methods to
connect users of each of their clients.
As long as you and everyone else you want to IM are on the same network, all you need
is one account. If you have one friend on a different network, you have to get another
account, possibly with another username or password to configure.
You have two ways to solve this dilemma: get a single IM client that supports all the
protocols or have all your friends adopt the open-source Jabber protocol and use a Jabber
client.
Kopete and Pidgin (for KDE and GNOME, respectively) are multiprotocol instant messengers
that can run all the previously mentioned systems and leave you active for hours on
end.
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