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+<h2>Users Mailing List</h2> <p> The Einstein Toolkit Consortium is aiming to cultivate a self-supporting and open community and we encourage you to write to the <a href="mailto:users@einsteintoolkit.org">users@einsteintoolkit.org</a> mail list with your questions about the use of the toolkit. </p> +<h2>IRC</h2> +<p> +Another way to get support maybe even faster and more interactively is +IRC. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat" +>Internet Relay Chat</a> (IRC) is a form of real-time +Internet text messaging, mainly centered about group communication +in discussion forums, called channels. +</p> +<p> +Cactus and the Einstein Toolkit at the moment share one such channel for +discussions among developers: <code>#cactus</code> on +<code>irc.oftc.net</code>, the IRC server of the +<a href="http://www.oftc.net/oftc/">Open and Free Technology Community</a> +(OFTC). <a href="https://svn.cactuscode.org/irc-logs/">Chat logs and statistics"</a> +are available. +</p> +<p> +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients" +>IRC Clients</a> are available for virtually every operating system. +</p>

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