irc/usenet?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:47:01AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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>.

Note that allowing Windows to update your media player to version 9
subjects you to nasty DRM-imposing EULAae that may permit Microsoft to
force, for example, your copy of WinAMP to stop working.

Cheers,
-- jra
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