On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 10:51:56AM -0400, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
Questions: - Good and easy to maintain irc-servers?
the bog-standard open source IRC servers that are used all over the internet are usually "fire and forget". you configure and start the server and it runs and that's the end of it.
Here at Nice University we're using dancer-ircd + dancer-services which are really easy to install considering that I'm a real beginner at IRC. However "securing" it a bit is difficult because of lack of doc.
- Good java irc-client?
We also use the Eteria irc java applet which seems to work nice in browsers (the ones I've tested). Problem is you must install it on the same server as the irc server since code is not signed. I'm considering to write some gateway to register users at the irc server when they are registered on the Zope server, but I've not begun yet. FYI we use this solution to allow distant-learning students to provide feedback to the teachers in real time when doing live audio or video courses. The dynamically created Zope page fires both the player (Real) and the irc applet, with irc channel name depending on the course. Jerome Alet