[TriLUG] IRC lack-of-fun

[Cristobal Palmer]

Your console faces your door? Nobody ever looks at your monitor?

I can totally sympathize with his position. At my previous employer
any form of "chat" was forbidden, and my monitor was viewable to the
entire office, so I only got to IRC at work when I was alone in the
office.

But, to bring this conversation back to the real point, what do the
majority of #trilug users want to see?

I've seen responses for and against Jabber, and I'd like to follow up
on the MUC issue. Somebody mentioned a curses-based MUC client from
google's SOC. Can we get any more info on that?

Keep the feedback coming,
CMP

On 8/30/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> how do they know you are IRC'ing... all they can detect is an SSH session.
>
> On 8/30/06, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> > Let's just say that running IRC is written out on paper as forbidden and
> > blocked. Jabber is unknown right now so there is <feigns dumb look>I
> > didn't know</feigns dumb look> wiggle room.
> >
> > Chris Knowles wrote:
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> > > Hmm... no knickers twisted here.
> > >
> > > I was mainly trying to point out that there is more than one way to skin
> > > a cat.
> > >
> > > Use of irssi and screen are actually a better fit for me than use of
> > > something that would have no history of before I came in.  (in that I
> > > don't want to keep xchat or an IM client running ALL the time)
> > >
> > > I'm intrigued by how you can't run SSH and IRC for "political" reasons,
> > > but a jabber client doing the exact same thing would be OK.
> > >
> > > CJK
> > >
> > > Dave Sorenson wrote:
> > >
> > >> Good for you.. I'm glad that works for you. Politically it would not
> > >> work for me for more reasons that I can get into on a public forum.  I
> > >> don't "want something else" like a spoiled child, I'm sorry you got that
> > >> impression. If Trilug chooses to not run a jabber server that's fine
> > >> with me. The question was asked about alternatives and I responded. I'm
> > >> sorry if got your knickers in a twist. Geeze
> > >>
> > >> DS
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Chris Knowles wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> So, the use of the "We block IRC at work so I want something else"
> > >>> argument isn't really effective.
> > >>>
> > >>> CJK
> > >>>
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-- 
Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student
TriLUG Vice Chair
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