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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Turned Thirty Last Week

posted by chromas on Saturday August 25 2018, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
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canopic jug writes:

Jarkko Oikarinen wrote Internet Relay Chat (IRC) at the Department of Information Processing Science of the University of Oulu, in Finland, 30 years ago. Even today, people are still using IRC and it is an essential communication tool for many distributed teams.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Pino P on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:19PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Sunday August 26 2018, @12:19PM (#726522) Journal

    Let me know when standard distributions of IRC server software have solved these through included plug-ins:

    • Built-in logging and log replay for those channels that choose to use logs
    • Bouncer as a standard feature for continuous presence across multiple devices
    • Link summary bot as a standard feature, so that pasting a link doesn't cause 100 clients in the channel to hammer the linked site for a summary
    • Attachment pastebin/filedrop as a standard feature, as not everyone has the ability to forward a port for DCC SEND

    Or should every user of IRC be expected to lease his or her own VPS on which to run a logging bouncer and an attachment filedrop?

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