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Hey folks....For any of the regular or infrequent mIRC chat people. The new chat service that Steve has set up is accessible from IRC as well as on a browser. In recent weeks/months the DalNet servers have been acting quite strange, as some of you know. So a bunch of us regulars have started using the new server and #letterville as our regular chat channel.
For folks that like using mIRC it is a matter of setting up a couple of things.
What you have to do in mIRC is go to file>options>connect (which is the window that automatically opens when you open mIRC). Instead of just clicking on "connect to server" click on "add" and beside "description" type in a name you'll remember, like WEBMASTER, for example. In the same window, beside "IRC server" type irc.webmaster.com
Once that is done and you have clicked "OK" a couple of times go to the "channels" folder (that is the one that comes up after connecting to a server) and type in #letterville and then hit the "add" button. at that point you can join #letterville by connecting to irc.webmaster.com and choosing #letterville as the channel.
For those who choose to not venture into IRC it is simply a matter of clicking on the "chat" button at the top right of this page and following the instructions.
Whether you join in via IRC or the browser method it works just fine and both IRC users and browser users see the same messages being typed at the same time.
At this point the advantages of access via mIRC are the ability to transfer files directly and to be able to "ping" someone to make certain of the quality of the connection (mIRC users know what that means!)
The advantage of accessing via the browser are some of the cute faces and icons that can be used.
I hope this explanation is in line with Steve's thinking about encouraging more folks to try out the chat availability and I hope that any of the aforementioned IRC users will consider choosing this particular server and channel. For the next little while a few of us die-hard chatters will be monitoring both #letterville and #letterheads on IRC to try and ease the transition, if that is what will be required and if that is the way Steve would like to see the chat feature progress.
At this point, I know nothing about IRCLE setup so I have asked Don Coplen if he would be willing to post a reply explaining how to access the server with that program.
Right now, this new server seems to be a lot more reliable than DalNet servers.
------------------ Dave Grundy shop#340 AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley "A PROUD $ supporter of the website"
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thanks Dave for that piece of information now I can get it to work through mirc which I couldn't even log on to before and ready to throw the whole lot out the window
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Thanks for posting this Dave. Over the past 6 years, our Letterville Chat room has proved to be a great success. This is the spot where many of us have meet for the first time. As a result, we have seen many wonderful lifelong friendships develop and at least one future marriage.
We are searching for a better chat. I dream of a chat that allows video, voice, text and the ability to transfer files. This chat will someday be hosted on a server of our own and be for the exclusive use of Letterville Residents, Visitors and Merchants.
This may not happen tomorrow but dreams have a funny habit of coming true here in Letterville. In the meantime, I suggest you give the new chat a go. Just click on the green Chat button at the top, right of this BB or use this link. www.letterhead.com/chat.html
I want to ask our more experienced chatters to help out the newbies with more tips and tricks. Use this topic Dave has started to get the most out of Letterville Chat.
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Dave, I followed your directions but don't understand what to do after entering irc.webmaster.com...it doesn't give me an option to choose 'ok' only 'add,cancel or help' ?????A
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Hi Adrfienne....Sorry for the confusion. I forgot that not everyone is using the latest version of mIRC. Earlier versions worked as you indicate. Type in the server name as you did and click "add". depending on which version you have that might just be all there is but another window might appear that requests some other info. That is where you would type in a "description" or "reference name" for the server, as well as the actual server name again. After that you would hit the "connect to server" button and everything should work fine.
------------------ Dave Grundy shop#340 AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley "A PROUD $ supporter of the website"
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After you get irc.webmaster.com working and join #letterville you can do some other things to make it all automatic. go to file, click then click on options and under the heading irc, click on perform, this brings up a fly out that has a window for typing if you click at the little box at the top by the wording"on connect, perform these commands" then type in the space below it.
/join #letterville If you have registered your nick you can also type /msg NickServ@services.dal.net IDENTIFY (your password you used to register your nick here) another thing you can type to speed up dcc /pdcc 500000 (I usually put 999999999 then it will go as high as it can LOL after you do these things all you have to do to join letterville chat is to pull up mirc and click on the lightning bolt at the top left guess that is all for now, come to letterville and you can learn some more LOL Bill
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There's a long way and a short way. I wrote out the long way and then the short way, then thought..who the heck wants to know the long way? Might as well buy one of the IBM incompatibles for that.
Step 1) Type into the input line in IRCle the following, without the quotations marks of course: "/server irc.webmaster.com" and hit enter or return. This should get you on the correct server.
Step 2. Type again into the input line the following: "/join #letterville", and then hit enter or return. This should get you on our chat channel.
When you close out of chat the first time after making these changes, select "save preferences" when the close window comes up.
Those directions were pretty tough, but I guess somebody had to do it.
(The sarcasm reguarding the Bill Gates empire that was previously in this paragraph is now replaced with "peace and love".... )
------------------ Don Coplen aka "SaintPete" Coplen Designs St.Petersburg, FL dcoplen@mindspring.com
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------------------ Dave Grundy shop#340 AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley "A PROUD $ supporter of the website"
------------------ Dave Grundy shop#340 AKA "applicator" on mIRC "stickin' sticky stuff to valuable vessels and vehicles!" in Granton, Ontario, Canada 1-519-225-2634 dave.grundy@quadro.net www.quadro.net/~shirley "A PROUD $ supporter of the website"
To automatically identify to nickserv (so that you don't get kicked off for using your own registered nickname) on the irc.webmaster.com, you do NOT use the same identify syntax as you used to use in DALnet.
The correct syntax is: /nickserv identify password
Remove the word "password" above and insert your actual password.
Another thing you can do is include all the ports which will connect on the new server irc.webmaster.com.
If you have already added the irc.webmaster.com server to your mIRC program, with mIRC open, go to FILE, OPTIONS, CONNECT, make sure the new server is showing in the box directly under the "IRC Servers" wording (I named it Letterville instead of Webmaster) then click on EDIT.
In the box that pop open, you will see a place for PORTS and most likely you'll just have 6667 in there. You want to add the following ports - separated only by a comma between each port number (no spaces). You can copy and paste this:
Then click on OK and the next time you connect, it will use one of the other ports if the port on your current port setting is too busy or not working.
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