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Originally posted by <My Dad's Suggestion>:
Well, I tried that link "irc://irc.efnet.net/gordon_lightfoot_chat"
and since the ultimebb url code automatically adds http:// to the fron of it, it will not work as a clickable link. Just copy and paste -
irc://irc.efnet.net/gordon_lightfoot_chat
-into the URL slot of Internet explorer and press Enter. This will achieve the desired effect. Thanks.
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Yes Yes Father.
Whilst I thoroughly appreciate your attempts to help regarding mIRC,I have to tell you that I have already overcome that particular hurdle as fully nay some might rudely/crudely say exhaustively explained in the earlier topic on the Friday chat
at:-
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/ultimatebb...=003574#000000
in particular see my posting on January the 28th
whthere you can see that I eventually succeded in making a forwarding URL
http://lnk.in/37sd
that opens
irc://irc.dilexnet.net:6667/gordonlightfootchat
which is the equivalent of your
irc://irc.efnet.net/gordon_lightfoot_chat
but using a different chat server (see below)
I have tried to provide a lucid description of the options on my "chat"page at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/chat/
and beyond that I will now review where we are now at.
Basically going back to 1997 the original chat room guru (Rik Stevens)had contrived to set it up so that the simplest method of access was a Java applet (originally jpilot).
He also discovered mIRC and much effort was spent trying to get every chatter to carry out
the elementary and straightforward task of installing it.
Then a few years ago the IRC server he was using cjb.net gave up the struggle against internet hooligans,and as I had a vested interest in keeping it going (without IRC I would most certainly have died in 2000)
I looked round to find a replacement google kindly showed me "the world's worst" website at:-
http://www.worlds-worst-website.com/...hat/chat2.html
which had not only a Java applet
which I very soon diagnosed was the free jwirc applet
but also a link called intriguingly
"mIRC Direct Link" which led to:-
irc://irc.dilexnet.net:6667/wwwchat
whre wwwchat was their IRC "channel"
so without realy then or now fully understanding how IRC worked I adapted it for our use.
the icing was put on the cake when one evening I was joined by a most helpful guy from the dilexnet organisation Brian "brut" Tomjack. He not only helped me register the channel etc but was able to tell me that dilexnet also had its own Java applet and gave me the URL to use it.I was then in the delightful position of being able to offer not only two distinctly
different Java applets but due to my earlier experience in the original room I could write up how to configure mIRC from scratch plus of course now had the bonus of a direct URL to automatically open and configure mIRC.
all was hunky dory for a long time until for reasons I never got to the bottom of the dilexnet applet would no longer function, then quite recently nobody could get in using dilexnet by either method.I have just checked and now "The Dilex-Networks Homepage is currently down" but it looks like their IRC channels are still functional
in the meantime Anne from OK had found chatzy chat which as it uses Javascript avoids the twin problems of
1. the non inclusuion of a Java Virtual Machine in new computers running Windows XP
And
2. the continuing reluctance of many delightful fans to get to grips with mIRC
(plus considerable prejudice even hatred/dislike against it due to its alleged propensity to "boot" people out, not true by my own experiences.) On the other hand the Javascript "chatzy" room has been having severe "lagging" problems so I for one am not prepared to tolerate that
I will summarise my latest Javascript research tomorrow but as Laurel said and seems to have now deleted
"mIRC is working" so I propose we use mIRC tomorrow for the regular Friday evening session at 9pm EST
John Fowles