Some IRC clients enable you to automatically greet persons joining the channel even if you are away or talking to other people.

在某频道中，你无需向每个人都打声招呼。 通常输入“你好！” 就足够了。

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Have you visited the bootstrap irc-server that the clients use to see if the number of clients have decreased?

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