Can I use bbs, irc, talk, ytalk, tf, and tintin?
talk and ytalk are currently permitted, but we do not provide accounts for users to just use talk and ytalk, and reserve the right to limit or prohibit their use even on a user to user basis. IRC, MUD, and BBS use is prohibitted by UPL policy. This includes the IRC program tintin. This was done because these programs use a large amount of network resources, as well as a fair amount of CPU resources. If even a couple of people ran IRC on one UPL machine, our system performance was severely degraded. If you wish to obtain your own IRC client to use with your student DoIT account, you can obtain browsers from ftp to yar.cs.wisc.edu, the DoIT ftp site, and other locations: MSDOS: • cs.bu.edu /irc/clients/pc (Note, has Windows, DOS, and OS/2 clients) • ftp.funet.fi /pub/unix/irc/msdos. Macintosh: • cs.bu.edu /irc/clients/macintosh • sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/comm • ftp.funet.fi /pub/unix/irc/mac • ftp.ira.uka.de /pub/systems/mac MUD playing is strictly prohibitted by UPL policy. Any
