Re: IRC in corporate enviroment

[michael getachew <michaelhoustong () yahoo com>]

> I'd lastly just want to mention that there are plenty of
> web-based, non-IRC places to find coding help and
> assistance. Forums, question/answer boards, and the like.
> IRC is great, but it's certainly not the only thing in this
> advanced Internet age.

speaking of web-based places there are web based irc clients. like freenode has webchat.freenode.net and mibbit gives 
you access to many more. so even if you block irc people can use http to sort of tunnel it in a way(although i doubt 
stuff like dcc works using web-based clients).

denying every traffic except the one you really need is a good practice so i suggest using web-based clients.

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