In case you missed it in my previous post, here's the Mibbit link to the Freenode channel:
http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc....k=mobilereader
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Originally Posted by Elsi
A private IRC server is better than one of the public ones -- you're much less likely to receive unsavory invitations. (And anyone who *wants* those unsavory invitations is welcome to visit one of those servers if they wish; they don't need a #mobileread channel to intice them.  ) |
I've never received any "unsavory invitations" on Freenode. That network is primarily used by people working on various open source projects and does not have many "general chat" channels. Also, it requires nick registration to send private messages and that really cuts down on spamming.