Actually...two questions:

1-does anyone know of a free program I can use to access IRC? I currently use mIRC but I only have 14 days or so until the evaluation is over and I'd rather avoid having to buy if at all possible.

2-do you know where the books available on IRC come from (I'm on #bookz)? From what I can see new books are uploaded everyday and I was wondering if there was a primary source for them with IRC being just an intermediary.

For example, for some ebooks I've downloaded, there was a txt file in the folders saying that it was a N.E.R.D. release. Do they have a website from which we can download?

Ignore the evaluation message on MIRC. They don't charge. Mine has been telling me my evaluation period is over, for several years now.

Another half way decent program is chatzilla which is an addon to mozilla's firefox browser.

As far as I know these people scan their books in and put them on their servers to share. Thats all I know about where they come from.

For those who dont Know you dont have to use mIRC there are tons of programs to use many are free. I would recommend finding an IRC client that meets your needs.

For this purpose here are some links to many differnt clients


For Windows users here are links to about 54 different IRC clients

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http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/platforms-windows.html

mIRC and Leafchat seem to be the most popular


For Mac users here are 19 different ones

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http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/platforms-macos.html

Ircle and MacBitchX seem to most popular for Macs


For Linux users there's 38

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http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/platforms-unix-x.html

X-Chat and Zircon seem to be most poular


For everything else there's Mastercard lol here is the main list for everything from Amiga to PDA's and mobiles.

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http://www.ircreviews.org/clients/

Thank you for all these precisions both of you!

I found this book to be very helpful when I was trying to learn about IRC

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http://rs139l32.rapidshare.com/files/24942566/The_Book_Of_IRC_-_The_Ultimate_Guide_To_Internet_Relay_Chat.rar

Lynn

Thanks Lynn that'll come in very handy