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Have you ever tried it? 90% of the time I tried it didn't work, in mirc or irssi.

• rasengan 8y ago
  dcc sends and xdcc bots were pretty influential in the early internet. It definitely works.
  • u801e 8y ago
    It does require that one open a port in their firewall for it to actually work. xdcc bots usually would indicate which port one needed to open.
    • coatmatter 8y ago
      Having open ports directly to the internet (by default) with dial up modems (before routers and NAT) used to be such a common practice. Things have changed, haven't they?
      • freeflight 8y ago
        That's a pretty good point I totally forgot about. Tho couldn't that problem "simply" be solved by updating the protocol to account for these changes?
• freeflight 8y ago
  IRC used to be a pretty popular distribution channel for Warez, tho it's been like 20 years ago I used it for anything like that.