Irc - Chat service

A/I offers its users the possibility to chat via IRC (Internet Relay Chat), a widespread chat system. IRC is fairly easy to use and a lot of people get wound up in it very fast: that's why it's one of the most widespread tools of electronic communication (more than e-mail by now).

The IRC network we offer is called mufhd0 and is administered by A/I, ECN and indivia projects together. You can access the network from each one of these project nodes, through the web interfaces set up by Autistici/Inventati, ECN and indivia (which also offers an encrypted chat), or via an IRC client as X-Chat or Gaim (for Linux and Windows) or xchataqua (for Mac OS X).
Among these tools, we strongly encourage X-Chat, since it allows for encrypted connections via SSL and also allows to connect to IRC via Tor.

To know how to configure a IRC client and what channels are available on our network, for more info on various IRC commands and services, check out our howto.