Yes, IRC ( internet relay chat )and #gayportland (the left coast Gay Portland Chat... Oregon !) are alive and well... "The patient is rallying: he signifies this by raising his little finger." You will find # gay portland on EFnet, IRC, where the channel has lived happily since the mid 90's - thru thick and thin, feast to famine, bowls of plenty to bowls of dust - under various management. However, there IS life again in these sometimes sordid rooms, despite the draw of thumbnails on gaydotcom and the impulse to herd toward the cliffs of mediocrity. We make no pretensions of being above the cheap and the tawdry... we merely "do it" with panache, in the good company of saints and hopeless reprobates from the northwest and the world.
If you are uninitiated to IRC and concerned about the technological barriers, just consider it a most modest intellectual hurdle over which the least among us cannot jump. For a quick and keen webchat portal (thanks EFnet & Douglas!) with NO download required Click Here
for instant connection to # Gay Portland. To tap the full potential of IRC you will want a chat client, such as mIRC , Trillian, or Chatzilla;
and if you run Unix/GNU I do not have to mention BitchX or Xchat. Mac clients include Snak, X-Chat Aqua, and Colloquy. Most are free, though they may prompt you for deserving contributions. A quick google on IRC chat will bring you a variety of clients. If you have trouble connecting, most anyone on # gay portland will be happy to assist you:)
Oh, obligatory channel rules (yeah, it is by convention a channel, not a room): be respectful of all whom are deserving of respect... and all are deserving unless proven otherwise. No overt sexual solicitation, demonstrable acts with english cucumbers, nor witless incessant yammering (you know who you are). Proselytising in general is not doing gawd's work, and there are those among us who will happily show you the door to find a life. Should you want assistance at any time on channel please feel free to /msg one of channel ops, or email p00ky@gayportland.info.
So, what was once the original is now an alternative. Welcome to the alternative. "Without contraries is no progression." Wm. Blake
Have fun in the sandbox!
p00ky & da gang on #GayPortland
for instant connection to # Gay Portland. To tap the full potential of IRC you will want a chat client, such as mIRC , Trillian, or Chatzilla;
and if you run Unix/GNU I do not have to mention BitchX or Xchat. Mac clients include Snak, X-Chat Aqua, and Colloquy. Most are free, though they may prompt you for deserving contributions. A quick google on IRC chat will bring you a variety of clients. If you have trouble connecting, most anyone on # gay portland will be happy to assist you:)
Oh, obligatory channel rules (yeah, it is by convention a channel, not a room): be respectful of all whom are deserving of respect... and all are deserving unless proven otherwise. No overt sexual solicitation, demonstrable acts with english cucumbers, nor witless incessant yammering (you know who you are). Proselytising in general is not doing gawd's work, and there are those among us who will happily show you the door to find a life. Should you want assistance at any time on channel please feel free to /msg one of channel ops, or email p00ky@gayportland.info.
So, what was once the original is now an alternative. Welcome to the alternative. "Without contraries is no progression." Wm. Blake
Have fun in the sandbox!
p00ky & da gang on #GayPortland
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