In rec.gardens.edible Noydb wrote:

That's okay, Phaedrine. I'm sure he meant well. He just doesn't 'get it'.
Just use KSIRC or XChat or even the Bourne Again IRC client (commandline
IRC ... woo hoo! Geekicity!)

Or perhaps irssi.

http://irssi.org/

It's my favorite. But then, I'm a perl programmer by trade, so it makes
sense that I'd use an IRC client that's extensible with perl.

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Art Sackett,
Patron Saint of Drunken Fornication