[Wolves] ircd

[Aquarius]

Jono Bacon spoo'd forth:
> --- s parkes <stephenparkes1972@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> another one of those 'me too' posts we all hate so much.  Peter's
>> assersion that it would be one more thing to worry about it spot on.

> I disagree. It would only be work for the person who decides to maintain
> it. If fizzy for example wants to run one, then so be it...as a LUG
> member he should be able to use the LUG resources for that - but he
> would need to be the one responsible for maintaining it. No other LUG
> member would be required to maintain it in anyway.

It'll impact the server, though, which is already under a relatively heavy 
load. Fizzy, would you be happy, say, running it on eleet? Or would you think, 
no, hang on, this is one more port I have to have open, one more potentially 
buffer-overrunnable application? The way I see it, we either want a place just 
for us to chat, or a place where we can chat and also talk to others. If the 
latter, then I see no problem with using a previously existing irc server (I 
have no problem with which network it's on) and don't need our own. If the 
former, then I'm much more inclined to suggest that we use something like 
Jabber, because we'll get online/offline notifications and a similar wide choice 
of clients, and we're not going to have to run a server (and therefore aren't 
at any risk of being owned).

Aq.

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