On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Riccardo Iaconelli <ricca...@kde.org> > > wrote: > >> > >> On sabato 7 maggio 2016 18:23:10 CEST Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > >> > I wonder why nobody > >> > examined this POV before starting to shift to Telegram. In this regard > >> > Mattermost appears to make much more sense as we could run it on our > >> > own servers, if we really need a phone client. > >> > >> Speaking as maintainer of a project which heavily uses Telegram: it > allows > >> backlogging and it is usable from behind any connection. For me it is > >> impossible to connect to IRC from the University, the University campus > or > >> the > >> research labs. > > > > > > Why? > > Universities usually firewall their internet connections to permit > only port 80 and 443 outbound. > Sometimes you have to use an authenticated proxy to do that as well. > > If you're lucky some universities will allow port 22 (SSH) outbound. > > This makes IRC unavailable obviously, although tools such as Telegram, > Slack, etc. which all use https and websockets to function work > perfectly fine. > I am not sure that I can realise the obvious here. I had used IRC in such an environment for years. If I recall it correctly, all I needed was an interim box. In worst case, I am sure that this would not be a problem for the KDE infrastructure to help a few KDE contributors in that case out. If it was, we need to think about a solution for the community in my opinion. > > Regards, > Ben > > > > >> > >> > >> Bye, > >> -Riccardo > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> kde-community mailing list > >> kde-community@kde.org > >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kde-community mailing list > > kde-community@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community >
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