IRC: Dangerous?
Can I link to an IRC channel?
No. IRC is dangerous. Worse than linking to a website.
How is it dangerous?
IRC is dangerous. With all the bots and whatnot that can be created for them… Heck, we’re not even allowed to have links to them on the site. It’d be violating TOS with our server provider.
Most IRC bots are harmless.
Meanwhile, on the IRC channel,
Don’t listen to him, haggisbot!
Cover your ears!
However, according to Wikipedia,
An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. It differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to… Visit the blog to read more of IRC: Dangerous?
