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* <tt>[[NationStates (IRC channel)|#nationstates]]</tt> - general NationStates chat
 
* <tt>[[NationStates (IRC channel)|#nationstates]]</tt> - general NationStates chat
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* <tt>[[NationStates2|#nationstates_2]]</tt> - [[NS2]] discussion
 
* <tt>[[NationStates General|#nationstates_general]]</tt> - NationStates chat, specifically for General forum posters
 
* <tt>[[NationStates General|#nationstates_general]]</tt> - NationStates chat, specifically for General forum posters
 
* <tt>[[NationStates Politics|#nationstates_politics]]</tt> - [[Real Life|RL]] political discussion
 
* <tt>[[NationStates Politics|#nationstates_politics]]</tt> - [[Real Life|RL]] political discussion
 
* <tt>[[NationStates Technical|#nationstates_technical]]</tt> - the IRC equivalent of the Technical forum
 
* <tt>[[NationStates Technical|#nationstates_technical]]</tt> - the IRC equivalent of the Technical forum
* <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.
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* <tt>[[Sport (IRC channel)|#nssport]]</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
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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
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* <tt>[[Draftroom (IRC channel)|#draftroom]]</tt> - general chat for NSDraftroom Members
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Note that if you use [http://tor.freehaven.net Tor] for privacy, that all Tor servers are Klined on all Esper.net servers.
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
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* [http://esper.net/servers/ EsperNet servers]
 
* [http://esper.net/servers/ EsperNet servers]
 
* [http://esper.net/documents/policy.html EsperNet user policy]
 
* [http://esper.net/documents/policy.html EsperNet user policy]
* [[Max Barry]]'s apparitions on IRC: [http://www.nationstates.net/pages/MaxChat.html 30 January 2004], [http://www.nationstates.net/pages/MaxChat2.html 17 April 2004], [http://www.nationstates.net/~salusasecondus/MaxChat3.html 13 November 2004]
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* [[Max Barry]]'s apparitions on IRC: [http://www.nationstates.net/pages/MaxChat.html 30 January 2004], [http://www.nationstates.net/pages/MaxChat2.html 17 April 2004], [http://www.nationstates.net/~salusasecondus/MaxChat3.html 13 November 2004], [http://www.nationstates.net/~salusasecondus/MaxChat4.html 6 August 2005]
  
 
[[Category:Internet Relay Chat]]
 
[[Category:Internet Relay Chat]]

Latest revision as of 17:22, 22 February 2007

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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