[TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

[William Sutton]

I concur on this.  The last thing I want to do is run multiple clients for 
multiple services (jabber/aim/irc/etc)  at multiple locations (work/home 
desktop/home laptop) to keep in touch with everyone.  I've figured out 
bitlbee for AIM individual chats, and that does fine (and allegedly 
there's a mode for MUCs, but I haven't had time or reason to try it).

Maybe I've missed it but freenode doesn't seem as unstable 
as...say...efnet or undernet.  Most of the trouble I've seen has been 
stupid dcc chat exploits on users rather than server droppage.

Just my $0.02 fairly late in the day (and the discussion)

-- 
William Sutton
M: 919.604.2502

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, 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.
> 
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