Hi Stefan, >Tabs on friends are called /notify. >Messages to others... well.. /msg, or /notice if you like..
I know this (well actually I'm not much of an IRC buff, but I could figure it out quick enough) but that doesn't change the fact that IRC is so vast and complicated that it loses a LOT of beginners. >Are you saying ICQ lacks server<->server connections? If so, it's not even >progress reinventing the wheel like that. I don't know. The do have multiple servers and from what I can tell they intercommunicate, but it's all their proprietary stuff so I'm not really sure exactly how it works. All I know is that from what I can tell their network is getting hit pretty hard and their servers aren't quite up to it (and they are losing the battle from what I can see). >Replacing a free, well established, fully functional, and multi-platform with >a non-free, single platform lacking basic functionality for handling networks >as they look today, sounds more insane than sane to me. Investing some time >making the irc clients more user friendly sounds much more like a sane idea >to me. ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply does TOO much. Come to think of it ICQ does one thing that I don't think you can do with IRC and that is leave a message for someone that they will get as soon as they next connect. Though again that's what email is for. The idea of writing a VERY simple IRC client is an interesting one. The only problem I can see is how do you set it up so that it doesn't get trashed by the hacker community. My experience with IRC shows that it leaves a lot to desired from server/security point of view. Adam. ----------------- Earthlight Communications Limited ---------------- P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager (voice) +64 3 479 0303 ------------------ http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ ------------------ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
