irc/usenet?

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeremy Anderson wrote:
> 
> Is there an IRC channel dedicated to filepro at all?
> is the newsgroup dead?  I notice that alt.filepro is no longer carried
> on groups.google.com

The alt.* newsgroups are not widely propogated, so alt.filepro was never
a great channel of communication.  That's why there is this mailing list,
which has several other advantages over Usenet.  First, messages propogate
much faster than on Usenet.  Second, it has spam filters in place so that
we aren't bombarded by spam/worms/viruses/etc.

I am not aware of any IRC channels, but John Esak has set up a chat room
that's really "chat", because it includes audio.  I believe that it needs
you to have Windows Media Player 9 or later, but other than that, it's
open to all: <http://www.tinyurl.com/yuag7>.

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