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Re: Is IRC participation possible?

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:32:50 -0800

Jim Driscoll wrote:
> I dunno - most folks are behind the Sun firewall - which means setting
> up Socks proxies, which is kind of a pain. But that's a pretty good
> idea, I'll see if I can encourage some folks to hang out there.

The socks proxies are set up, but yes, you have to configure programs
to use them.

In SCA we have direct connectivity to the internet, so unless our firewall
is explicitly blocking the IRC port, you shouldn't need a proxy at all.