Is Jabber skinnable? -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Derek Neighbors Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:20 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Cc: mailings02@ttlexceeded.com Subject: Re: suggestions for 'value added services' on the plug website Bob George said: > 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. Yes the point was not to put down the efforts you have done this far. >> 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. Freenode is indeed free. In all senses. In fact, that is one reason they changed the name from openprojects to freenode. >> [...] >> 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 , 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. > When I talked about Jabber IM, I specifically said IRC gateway. I was not implying that we should use IM, but rather users of Jabber need not leave their IM client to participate on IRC. -Derek --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss