From: m712 <redacted>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:19:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: cherry-picking 4c7fd80 for the faq article
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+Title: Connect
+Slug: chat
+---
+<p>To access the <span class="freenode">freenode</span> IRC servers,
+you'll first need an IRC client.  Text clients include
+irssi, WeeChat, and ERC.  Graphical clients include XChat, Smuxi, and Quassel 
+for Unix and GNU/Linux, and mIRC for Windows. There is also the 
+<a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">freenode webchat</a>.
+Packages for various IRC clients may be included on your operating
+system install CDs and links to web sites for the client software can be
+found
+
+<a href="http://www.irc.org/links.html">here</a>.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<p>Once you have a client, you'll need a server. 
+You can simply use <b>chat.freenode.net</b> to reach our main rotation of
+servers; or, you can find a more geographically-local server
+
+<a href="irc_servers.shtml">here</a>.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<p>After you've obtained your client and the name of
+a server, you may still need a bit of help in getting connected.  Take a
+look at this
+
+<a href="http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html">tutorial</a>
+
+or this
+
+<a href="http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircprimer.html">IRC primer</a>
+
+on
+
+<a href="http://www.irchelp.org/">irchelp.org</a>,
+
+which contains a variety of other useful information as well.</p>
+