Magnus Henoch wrote:
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.
What if a irc user is in two channels, e.g. #talks and #talks2, each of
which has a member "foo" (in jabber terms: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/foo,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/foo). Now the user clicks (or uses tab completion)
to start a query with "foo" in one of the channels and sends a private
message...
Just displaying the "room nick" does not work, because this is a concept
which irc does not have.
On the other hand, irc users will complain that the nicknames are too
long if you display full JIDs instead of nicknames only. And just wait
until they start complaining about long channel names ;-)
