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* <tt>[[Sport (IRC channel)|#sport]]</tt> - OOC discussion and chat about NationStates sports, particularly the [[World Cup]] series, and other things that cross the minds of sport-geeks.
 
* <tt>[[Sport (IRC channel)|#sport]]</tt> - OOC discussion and chat about NationStates sports, particularly the [[World Cup]] series, and other things that cross the minds of sport-geeks.
 
* <tt>[[TheModCave|#themodcave]]</tt> - a place to make request for NationStates [[Moderator]] intervention, idling is prohibited
 
* <tt>[[TheModCave|#themodcave]]</tt> - a place to make request for NationStates [[Moderator]] intervention, idling is prohibited
* <tt>[[UnitedNations (IRC channel)|#unitednations]]</tt> - discussion of all things [[UN]]
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* <tt>[[United Nations (IRC channel)|#unitednations]]</tt> - discussion of all things [[UN]]
 
* <tt>[[NSwiki (IRC channel)|#nswiki]]</tt> - discussions of this very place
 
* <tt>[[NSwiki (IRC channel)|#nswiki]]</tt> - discussions of this very place
  

Revision as of 18:10, 14 October 2005

This article deals with Internet Relay Chat as it relates to NationStates. For more general information, see the Wikipedia article on this subject.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet, popularly used by many members of the NationStates community. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion groups called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.

Most NationStates discussion is on the EsperNet IRC network (irc.esper.net, port: 6667). There are many channels, but the most common are:

Note that if you use Tor for privacy, that all Tor servers are Klined on all Esper.net servers.

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