Title: irc
Subject: just some starter notes for irc

client:  bitchx, ircii, xchat, epic

irc.freenode.org is where all of the good OSS projects hang out
Debian group would be: #debian

/help 			 - displays all the commands that client accepts
/server irc.slashnet.org - connect to slashnet's irc server
/nick ascott 		 - change your handle to ascott
/join #debian 		 - join the debian channel
/join #apache 		 - join the apache channel
/who #apache 		 - see who is on the channel 
			(if you are in a command line irc
			and it doesn't have a user display window)
/list 			 - lists all the channels on that server 
			(warning, this can take a really long time to 
			finish listing if you are on one of the big irc
			networks like undernet.org)
/msg ascott some message here - send the private message "some message
here" to the ascott user (who doesn't necessarily need to be on the same
channel as you)
/leave #debian 		- leave the debian channel but not the apache channel
			 (synonymous with /part)
/quit 			- leave irc client

This should get you started. Check out irc.slashnet.org. That server has
got a lot of geeks and you usally you can just join a channel on a
gerneric topic and there will already be 20-30 people logged in. #php,
#apache, #debian, #lamp, #linux, etc... should all be highly populated
channels.