www.isohunt.com. It's a sort of search engine of irc channels. Far from perfect but it often turns up some good results. And not just anime but lots of other stuff as well. This should save you some time channel-huntingwise.

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2003

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wow! nice site.. thanks

-- Anonymous, April 14, 2003

Thanks, Site rocks.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2003

Well if they take submissions add irc.novernet.com #Miyu!(run by Devifox and staff) to the list if u dont mind Weve got new an old anime. Mostly new, but if ur on 56k or a total newb, u will be helped in ur search.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003

Sounds good to me, but the site isn't mine so just get in touch with the owner and have him put you up, he's always looking for new channels to add.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003

I did a google search and got here. I'm the owner / developer of the isoHunt project. (hobby is more accurate but project sounds good)

and yes, I always welcome new channels. My bot actually do /list on networks and automatically go into ALL channels with more than 20 people, so channel submission is not necessary. For networks, i get my list from netsplit.de.

irc.novernet.com is on the bot's network list, but it either had problem connecting or didn't find any files so it stopped going there. It will go there now once i get the bot back online (bot offline for 2 weeks now, I didn't have time to code in a needed feature. See the 1st posting on my site)

And a bit more info about my site. It searches XDCC and Fserve (xdcc search is common but Fserve search is unique on the web ;) and links to the network / channel where they were found. A side feature is NFO search that's integrated with the files search. Not as complete as nforce.nl, etc though in terms of NFOs, coz the nfos are directly read from Fserves. I can make a user-submitted addition if there's a demand for it.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003

Riiiiight...I didn't really understand a word of that but I just want you to know you're doing a great job. Keep it up!

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003

hah NOOB! (kidding) and Thanks.

on the site, you see networks and channels on the left, files and servers on the right. There are 2 types of file servers:

Fserve (file server) are like IRC version of FTP, and

XDCCs are a more direct and convenient version of fserves, but limits in number of files (1 "server" for each file, usually made for new releases where there's a lot of demand for the file)

NFOs are iNFO files are from release groups that made the files, it tells you what the file is and how to use it.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003

Aha, it was the nfo part I didn't get. And what's all this about the "censored" triggers?

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003

there's a lot of opposition to posting persoanal details like nicknames, so I censored out the Fserve triggers. I don't agree with it, but some people don't like it so. This does not apply to XDCCs, they are not censored.

With the triggers censored you can still go to the channel the fserve is on, but you'll need some digging to see who has the files you searched.

I'm making a system where you can directly msg the bot on IRC to either uncensor the triggers and allow isoHunt to post full server details, or conversely opt-out of the isoHunt index completely. Censoring triggers is an intermediate solution: files are indexed but server details are not posted.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003

Here's another site: searchirc.com but I have yet to find anything sensible with this one.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2003

http://www.isohunt.com/ now includes a function to allow searching for torrents. Good for your local illegal movie and app downloads and all that, not that a good guy like myself would know anything about stuff like that, aha.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2003

And wzz.vze.com is great for finding those xdcc bots so you can just move in for the kill.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2003

does it also /list hidden channels? Most of the fansubbing channels are +s.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2003

I tried to check, but the site seems to be having problems.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2003