----- Original Message -----
From: Ian C.Sison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: PLUG chat in the website? was Re: [plug] chat
>
> my $0.02:
>
>
> > 1.) I checked the web regarding where the software came from. I found
> > out that it was a shareware client and therefore we need to pay for it.
I
> > don't know yet what kind of license they have for giving us a chat
> > interface in our website.
> >
> > 2.) I thought of PLUG as an organization that promotes opensource/free
> > software to the world and I was thinking that maybe PLUGgers don't want
> > the idea that a proprietary software is running in our website.
>
> As much as possible it would be a good idea to confine ourselves to using
open
> source applications and products. And being a linux organization, i hope
we
> can rule out indefinitely any programs that require non-linux OSs, at
least for
> the server.
>
> > 3.) I don't know if our current server can handle that many requests.
The
> > server is a property of one of the PLUGgers and I don't really know if
he
> > is running something important in that server.
>
> It is running something important - the PLUG website! \8) Seriously, if
there
> is a solution which you can give me to incorporate a chat server on the
box,
> then i'm open to discussions on that.
>
> AFAIK, there is an IRC channel dedicated to local linux talk. was that
> linux-ph? on what server i don't know. i'm not really into IRC.
>
If I remember it right, I think it's in Undernet IRC server.
But few people stay there tsaka worse... walang sumasagot.
hehehe =P
Linux newbie,
~Viril~
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