Okay firstly some people think this isn't where I should be asking this at all well, look at the description of the forum:
"If you need help with connecting to IRC, or anything related to identd, networks, routers, firewalls or proxies, you can post your questions here "
Now I and probably most of the other people who have ever looked at this thread (no of course they didn't stay and talk about which port was the best when they saw there was no answer to their question) are behind a *firewall* and can't connect to irc because of it. To say that this is something that is likely to be used for illicit purposes of that something bad will come of it is ridiculous and you know it. I think that the reason you won't answer is that many of you can't answer this fundamental question about irc. If you were in a building with this firewall you couldn't connect to it.
