RE: SEUL: Place to meet

[Juhana Siren <jsiren@pc164178.oulu.fi>]

On 03-Jul-97 Erik Walthinsen wrote:

>Knowing as little as I do about the underlying structure of IRC, someone will 
>probably have to clue me in, but I get the impression that there are "good" 
>servers and "bad" servers to use.  It is also my impression that most servers 
>are linked together and #seul on irc-2.mit.edu is the same as #seul on 
>irc.eskimo.com.  If this is the case, then anyone can join from anywhere.  

Well, not quite. There are a few networks of servers, e.g. #channel on
irc.homelien.no is not the same as #channel on irc.oulu.fi, whereas #channel
on irc.pspt.fi is. These are Undernet, Efnet etc.

>Otherwise I'm soliciting server names for people to congregate at, and 
>seul-leaders will make a decision sometime, well, soon.

>Another issue that should be resolved before any real discussions take place 
>is logging.  I know it's possible to log IRC sessions, since I've seen it 
>done.  The question I have is: how?  Does it require a bot or some other kind 
>of daemon, or will some servers log things for you?

At least irc2 + Vassago's Phoenix scripts are able to do logging.

-- 
Juhana Siren (Mr.) - Juhana.Siren@oulu.fi - http://rieska.oulu.fi/~jsiren/
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