this is interesting because there is a lot of fear in the usa about
teenagers being preyed upon by older people, or fooled into becoming
friendly with them, etc. i don't know how common this really is but it
gets INCREDIBLE amounts of publicity when it happens. maybe europeans are
more sane about this.
>banning:
>irc works with channels (or "rooms") and the bans are separate for each
>channel. i went to check some modes now, most of the channels i use to be
>on seem to be secret nowadays and then there's no need for bans. the guys
>told however that the .com and .edu are quite often banned nowadays too.
>
>they are telling me that a bigger problem is that the operators have
>trouble keeping the irc networks together. ircnet europe and america were
>separated for about a year and are only loosely connected at the moment. i
>haven't been following that really.
>
>+ an + ~ Toni ~ : (t . !
thanks for the explanation... is it for technical reasons (like,
intercontinental irc takes too much bandwidth/resources) or policy reasons
(like, we want to control this)?