On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:31:54PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> What is a "SIP"?
He meant "ISP", duh. The question is -- which Israeli ISPs are blocking
outgoing IRC? I'm not aware of even one.
> It's not an issue of better things to do. We can have IRC and other things as
> well. The crackers are an issue. The question is what do we have to fear:
> some extra traffic? cracking attempts? And naturally we may harm the good
> guys because of abuse of the bad guys.
>From my experience, IRC server installations which don't origin from
real IRC network growth (ie. the original servers not sustaining the
load) are either for 'l33t power' reasons (ie. the person wants to be a
local op on his server, thus having increased privileges, and maybe
enter the network ircop circles) or due to cluelessness ("Uhh, shiny! I
want to install my very own IRC server!").
More over, if there's a single ISP which performs silly traffic filtering,
why should IGLU compensate for their lack of service to their customers?
