On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:34 +0200, xor wrote: > On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:20:52 AM you wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 23:29 +0200, xor wrote: > > > Hey, > > > various people have been complaining that I'm not on IRC 24/7. Toad you > > > have spoiled them! > > > > > > While I can keep IRC running while I'm asleep, I cannot do so when I'm > > > not at home [1]. > > > > Get them to use emails. You intend on doing asynchronous communication > > with those people... that's what emails are for. I'm happy to setup new > > mailing lists for you if need be. Bouncers are meant for people with > > connectivity problems, not people who aren't online. > > > > > I don't know who runs FPI's server, but would it be possible to set up an > > > IRC bouncer on it for me? > > > > Technically, probably... but you'd have to convince the BOFHs > > (infinity0, operhiem1 and me) it's a good idea. > > I would like to dig this out again for several reasons: > - My reconnect frequency has increased even more, for reasons which I cannot > do anything about. I feel it is disturbing general productivity if people > cannot continuously talk to me on the channel. I've encountered several > productive discussions ending prematurely just because I had to disconnect. > - Of course people are technically obliged to use mail for async > communication > because IRC is not meant for it, but fact is people are lazy. Just because > someone doesn't have the time to write up a mail doesn't mean that what he > had > to say wouldn't be useful. > - Volunteers are valuable and we want to make it as easy for them as > possible. > - I shouldn't end up buying a bouncer service from a random company. We use > IRC for a lot of important discussions and my login data shouldn't be shared > with a random company. It really should be on our server. > > So in conclusion I would be really really happy for a bouncer. > Can you put one on our server please? > > With regards to choice of which bouncer / its configuration I would like to > note one thing: Make sure that it uses some kind of ACK/ping mechanism to > ensure that it stores messages even when the IRC client is forcefully > disconnected without a clean /quit. It would be OK if it excessively pinged > my > machine to do so.
The response stays the same. Use the mailing list or setup your own. FPI uses Bytemark for hosting, if you don't want to entrust a "random" company with your login details, use the same. NextGen$
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