[pct-l] OT - PCT IRC Channel

[Postholer]

Hey Patrick,

I didn't mean to come off sounding brash. It did come out that way, though. 
My apologies!

Huge hosting providers such as rackspace, serverbeach, et al, will block 
your server traffic immediately if they catch you running an IRC service on 
your server. These folks rent/lease/house high end servers in their 
co-location facilites. There must be a reason for it beyond fearmongering.

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Beggan" <meta474 at gmail.com>
To: "Postholer" <public at postholer.com>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] OT - PCT IRC Channel


> That's irrational fearmongering. If we were on some big network like 
> Efnet and half our users were hunting for porn or warez that might be  the 
> case but on a small network like irc.xkcd.com that's far from the  case --  
> there's no bots to even offer downloads. (associated with  comic 
> http://www.xkcd.com )
>
> IRC itself is no more or less dangerous than e-mail, as a medium, for 
> transmission of virii or adware or spam. It's a conversation medium. A 
> room and server properly policed offers no danger to its users.
>
> In fact, its safer than e-mail in the case of viruses and spam -- most 
> spam and viruses are transmitted by e-mail. Heck, I've never even been 
> spammed on an IRC server because I stick to the tame parts.
>
> To call IRC the bottom of the barrel is incorrect. IRC isn't the  ghetto 
> of the internet, far from it. I think perhaps Postholer has had  some bad 
> experiences on the bigger networks.
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Postholer wrote:
>
>> IRC is widely known as the bottom of the barrel for viruses, adware, 
>> spam,
>> cross-scripting, bots and all unsavory things associated with the 
>> internet.
>> You've been warned. Some hosting providers won't even allow you to  run a 
>> IRC
>> server because of the nature of it.
>>
>> That's why I've never even considered associating postholer with an  IRC
>> service.
>>
>> -postholer
>>
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