-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 29-Jul-97 Clint Adams wrote: > >> The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or >> other chat proggie) is the online notification. > >So someone just needs to write a free daemon that handles online notification.
I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy cool thing to do would be to organize a new network for this or talk to some organization like ml.org It would also be cool if there was a Win95 compatible client. I am not a programer so I couln't do it, at least not until I learn how to program, but it would be really cool if some one else who was into writeing it like the idea as much as I do. But what I am proposing could develope into a large undertaking. Possible something I may like to do my self once I start college. Let me know if the is alread a way to do this besides IRC. The deamon idea is a great one. And maybe make an Xprogram that would do some kind of small visual notification when you get a message. But I still think ICQ is a cool little app. I really don't like using IRC for several reasons. You can't leave messages for someone. Most IRC channels I have been on are populated by a large number or complete morons. Netsplits. Irc servers are frequent targets of cracker attacks. And sending files by DCC has to be the slowest thing ever. Usualy when I have sent files with ICQ I get near the max throuput of my modem. But I could have been doing something wrong whith DCC. Just my thoughts. - ------------------------- E-Mail: Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.methow.com/~tcole -- Get my Public Key here Date: 29-Jul-97 Time: 11:43:52 640Kb should be enough for anybody Bill Gates - ------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCUAwUBM949kGgYC2+RaorhAQEgtwP2Mbr3GLTnqUq7YmnTiEBLNHf1o0BF3W0H aMmXFny356YHo5ZTMrLi/bsFCGX62Z1cfZNUqKNdJVr6tE3CFBMA2xTEm8KrwmxY WlAN7FxvtEts4WEBBABLb0PMnAfG1zPk0Ht2vi1dLSp8ADGMeevjgyYZms9sdjJi o1tLLvruGg== =qhmc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
