On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:10:28PM +0200, Joerg Reuter wrote:
> > Aside from tradition, what's wrong with just using IRC over packet?
>
> It starts with the question: which IRC? The RFC is long obsoleted
> by the actual implementations. To make it worse, those implementations
> are incompatible with each other, you've got to stick with one
> server type. The overhead is higher (IMHO not really a problem), depending
> on the ircd you use some timers (especially for pings) need to get
> tweaked.
>
> The main problems with IRC as we know it:
>
> - does not allow loops (but at least it doesn't render the whole
> network unusable if they occur)
> - complicated to configure
> - only suited for small networks: at least for the Undernet server
> every Hub server needs an entry in all other nodes' config
> - low acceptence by the users as long as convers at least somewhat
> works
>
> IRC isn't much better than convers, hence a new protocol would be
> the best sollution. At least it could take care of the loop issue.
Well those are some real problems, so I guess I agree with you.
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