> Many moons ago I tinkered with extending an irc bot to take input from > an external source and relay it into an irc channel. It wasn't a > terribly difficult hack, it just required plugging into it's poll / > event loop an extra poll of the program generating the input. Something > along those lines might suffice for a handy way to integrate the two > resources. > > Still, it seems that individuals joining the IRC server w/ the IRC > transport is a readily available way to tackle this problem, although it > doesn't have the added benefit of gradually allowing people to migrate > to jabber MUC, with the expectation of phasing out IRC. :) *teases > Jason* > > Aaron S. Joyner
lest anyone feel excluded from the inside joke here, allow me to explain :) aaron, joel, and i had a little, uh, discussion the other day about the merits of jabber vs. irc. while i will admit that i have never used jabber for any significant length of time, i've been using irc for several years now and have really come to like it. so in a manner befitting gnome vs. kde or emacs vs. vi, here are my particular reasons for liking irc: - irc is text based, no gui required. which means that the irc client can be used on just about any *nix system, including very old hardware or a server which may not have X installed. - for the reason above, it is trivial to run an irc client on a remote host. if you're on a windows box that doesn't happen to have an irc client installed, you can simply ssh (thank god for putty) to your favorite *nix host and run irc from there. - for both reasons above, you can use the most excellent combination of an irc client and screen on a *nix machine to maintain a persistent irc session that can be accessed anywhere from anything. this is what many, of the #trilug regulars do. the latter is the killer feature for me - total portability. i spend a lot of time out of my office at client sites, sometimes i have my laptop, sometimes i don't, sometimes i do but don't feel like using it. but since i run irssi (a popular irc client) in a screen session on the trilug server, my irc session is running 24x7. i connect at home, catch up on things, and detach my screen session when i leave. when i reach a client site, i log back in to dargo and reattach to my screen session (from linux or bsd or windows or osx or whatever machine i happen to be on) and it's like i never left. i can see any message sent to me, read scrollback to see what i may have missed, etc. heck, i can (and have) logged into dargo from my treo 650 and had irc conversations while $wife was driving at 75 mph. so that's my side of the story, counterpoints welcome. jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
