The best way to share long sections of text with other IRC users It is important that you do '''not''' to paste it long sections of text into the a channel. For any text longer than a few lines (3-9 being the maximum depending on the channel's rules) such as build output, source code, error messages, configuration text files, etc., you should avoid pasting it into an IRC channel directly. Instead, you should use an on-line "pastebin". These are websites that allow users to temporarily host large quantities of text, and assign them unique URLs. There are a number of pastebins available with similar features (they really differ only in syntax highlighting and retention time):