Sometimes the idea to move a discussion channel from IRC to XMPP MUC is brought up, but fails for social and technical reasons: there are more people who know how to use an IRC client than an XMPP client, and IRC clients (and servers) are (allegedly) much better at handling heavy use of such channels. The Jabberites thus start using an IRC transport, and everything is calm again.
However, I thought it would be interesting to do it the other way around, so I hacked together an IRC interface to ejabberd. Point your IRC client to basil.cd.chalmers.se and join #talks, to see how it looks. Technically, you are logging in as [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an anonymous server, so it doesn't matter what password you enter (if any). The channel #whatever corresponds to the MUC room [EMAIL PROTECTED] This IRC "server" is quite simple (notably it doesn't support listing of "channels", changing your nickname, or error propagation from XMPP to IRC), but fakes it good enough to fool rcirc and irssi in my tests. I'll make the source code available when I find time. Send bug reports through XMPP. -- Magnus JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
