[TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

[Greg Brown]

I'm for just about anything except IRC.  My work firewall is kind enough to
block IRC so I'm out of the loop during the work day.

On 8/30/06, jason at monsterjam.org <jason at monsterjam.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> > nivex at nivex.net
> > http://www.nivex.net/
> >
> > -=-
> >
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