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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ada IRC channel on Freenode
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:23:35 +0000
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Date: 2012-11-10T09:23:35+00:00
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Michael Erdmann <boavista@snafu.de> writes:

> On 11/08/2012 02:44 AM, Genro Kane wrote:
>> About twice a year we try to advertise the #ada channel on the
>> Freenode IRC network.  Celebrating its eleventh birthday next month,
>> the channel continues to be active and friendly.  These days it
>> averages about 60 users at a time, large enough to support lively
>> and informative discussions but small enough so it's not a madhouse.
>>
>> Topics range all over the map, from building the latest GNAT to
>> writing an OS in Ada to daily Ada programming issues to how to use
>> PolyOrb to use the Distributed Systems Annex.  The stated topic is
>> discussing Ada in the context of free and open-source software, but
>> commercial users are equally welcome.
>>
>> So fire up your favorite IRC client and come join us!  The network
>> is homed at irc.freenode.net, but has servers all over the world.
>> Visit www.freenode.net on the web for details.  Hope to see you
>> soon!
>>
> It would help if you could post the name of the channel as well. On
> the first look i was not able to locate the channel in the list of
> primary
> groups.

I think that might be #ada (as in the OP's first line).