[TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

[jason at monsterjam.org]

I run wildfire on my server, its very easy to use/install if yer 
running java 1.5 and it supports MUC.

Jason

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 
04:21:01PM -0400, Kevin Otte wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:06:01PM -0400, Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> > I'd support a move to jabber. In the past the critical mass hasn't  
> > been there for such a move, but perhaps times are changing? The  
> > change would be easy for me though, as I'm only really in #trilug and  
> > related channels and most of the people in those other channels are  
> > either already in #trilug or are easily accessible through IM.
> 
> One of the arguments against has been a lack of console based Jabber client
> that doesn't suck (subjective I realize), but more to the point one that
> supports MUC (Multi-User Chat).  bitlbee provides an excellent bridge for
> those wishing to use irssi (or any IRC client for that matter) to the other
> IM networks, but it does not yet have MUC support.  I think this continues
> to be too large a hurdle to a full-scale migration of something like
> #trilug.
> 
> Don't get me wrong.  I'm a huge fan of Jabber and I think it has great
> potential in a lot of other arenas, but I think our current situation is a
> niche that Jabber will have a hard time filling.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Otte, N8VNR
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> http://www.nivex.net/
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