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Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2018-09-18 12:40:50 +0000:
> On 2018-09-18 11:26:57 +0900 (+0900), Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
> [...]
> > I can understand that IRC cannot be used in China which is very
> > painful and mostly it is used weChat.
> [...]
> 
> I have yet to hear anyone provide first-hand confirmation that
> access to Freenode's IRC servers is explicitly blocked by the
> mainland Chinese government. There has been a lot of speculation
> that the usual draconian corporate firewall policies (surprise, the
> rest of the World gets to struggle with those too, it's not just a
> problem in China) are blocking a variety of messaging protocols from
> workplace networks and the people who encounter this can't tell the
> difference because they're already accustomed to much of their other
> communications being blocked at the border. I too have heard from
> someone who's heard from someone that "IRC can't be used in China"
> but the concrete reasons why continue to be missing from these
> discussions.

Given the time zone differences between many of our regular
contributors and the folks in China, I wonder if it would be better
to emphasize the use of the mailing list anyway.

Doug