Title: Extremely lucid treatment of a complex subject.
Product review: I tried several other books on IRC from the library before chancing on this one in my favorite bookstore. It is many lengths ahead of the pack with clear exposition. It makes you want to sit down at the keyboard and apply what you've learned immediately. The author says knowledge of five commands are sufficient to get anyone started and then tells you how to do it. The only shortcoming is that the book was three years old by the time I read it. Some commands are no longer recognized by the leading IRC programs, mostly because they have been supplanted by improvements. Nevertheless, there is plenty of meat applicable to mIRC and Pirch, the leading programs. The development and place of IRC in internet communications are explained admirably. I will look forward to a revised version while considering my money well spent for the one I have.
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