suggestions for "value added services" on the plug website

[Bob George]

On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:45 am, technomage wrote:
> [...]
> /sarcasm on
> gee, thank you for your "support"!
> /sarcasm off

I know the irc server is your pet project, technomage. Don't take any of this 
personally! We do appreciate what you've done. Just there are limitations 
that we should look at honestly.

> if I had the funds to go to freenode, I wouldn't be running it off my
> braodband. [...]

Isn't freenode FREE? I was on the Toronto LUG mailing list and asked about an 
IRC channel, and they've since set up a very popular #toronto-lug channel. I 
know there's a procedure for establishing a channel and reserving op ids.

> [...]
> IM is a wonderful tool, but I think its not exactly designed for what I
> have in mind here....

Well, since Java has been deemed evil, and other IM systems are proprietary 
<g>, there's no reason we couldn't have a jabber server established with an 
IRC transport linked to the channel. I don't know that there would be enough 
IM (much less JABBER IM) users to make it worthwhile though. The good news is 
that when/if this is done, it has no impact on the IRC server itself, so 
could be a separate project altogether.

- Bob