Re: [Staffslug] IRC channel

For those of us that can tell the difference between 100ms and 30ms latency on IRC, I'd say this is an excellent idea. For everybody else I think this is unnecessary upheaval. Thanks, Jon On 15 January 2011 12:47, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi All > > The reason for my post is that I have noticed the majority of our > regular channel users are also using irc.z.je (formerly > irc.nixhelp.org). I want to propose moving to this network for several > reasons. > > 1) Connecting is much quicker - feel free to try yourself. > 2) There are less channels to use, however for our users convenience > we will appear clearly in the /list > 3) The network is hosted mainly in the UK, which eliminates latency to > some extent > > I realise that there may be issues for some users with the change, > therefore I propose we deal with this by implementing the following > > 1) Pjirc Java applet on the Staffslug site > 2) use a DNS A host for irc.staffslug.org.uk and aim it at the z.je dns > pool > > I don't believe that we require the extensive help pages that Freenode > offers given that IRC has been around longer than the "web". Should > anyone feel it necessary - documentation could be produced quite > quickly and I would even do it myself to save arguments. > > Does anyone have any objections/opinions on this? > > All constructive criticism welcome. > > Thanks for reading and if this does not apply to you (perhaps you > don't use IRC at all) then please don't feel you have to contribute > anything to this topic! > > If anyone knows of a regular to the IRC channel who is not on the > list, please mention this to them. > > > -- > > Andrew Edwards > > _______________________________________________ > Staffslug mailing list > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug > _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug