On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:20:52 AM you wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:29 +0200, xor wrote: > > Hey, > > various people have been complaining that I'm not on IRC 24/7. Toad you > > have spoiled them! > > > > While I can keep IRC running while I'm asleep, I cannot do so when I'm > > not at home [1]. > > Get them to use emails. You intend on doing asynchronous communication > with those people... that's what emails are for. I'm happy to setup new > mailing lists for you if need be. Bouncers are meant for people with > connectivity problems, not people who aren't online. > > > I don't know who runs FPI's server, but would it be possible to set up an > > IRC bouncer on it for me? > > Technically, probably... but you'd have to convince the BOFHs > (infinity0, operhiem1 and me) it's a good idea.
I would like to dig this out again for several reasons: - My reconnect frequency has increased even more, for reasons which I cannot do anything about. I feel it is disturbing general productivity if people cannot continuously talk to me on the channel. I've encountered several productive discussions ending prematurely just because I had to disconnect. - Of course people are technically obliged to use mail for async communication because IRC is not meant for it, but fact is people are lazy. Just because someone doesn't have the time to write up a mail doesn't mean that what he had to say wouldn't be useful. - Volunteers are valuable and we want to make it as easy for them as possible. - I shouldn't end up buying a bouncer service from a random company. We use IRC for a lot of important discussions and my login data shouldn't be shared with a random company. It really should be on our server. So in conclusion I would be really really happy for a bouncer. Can you put one on our server please? With regards to choice of which bouncer / its configuration I would like to note one thing: Make sure that it uses some kind of ACK/ping mechanism to ensure that it stores messages even when the IRC client is forcefully disconnected without a clean /quit. It would be OK if it excessively pinged my machine to do so. Thanks
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