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-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 18-Sep-03/7:41 PM
"but you mean BAN, dont you? autokill is a server ban, an a-killed hostmask will be automatically booted when it attempts to connect to the server."

No shit, really. It's one channel. Server ban is no better than a channel ban.

"you have a point about bandwidth, and about an attack on poemranker, but bandwidth shouldnt be a big problem since there are not that many rankerfolk, we arent looking at huge ircd loads here."

Poemeranker is slow enough as it is. And I didn't say anything about bandwidth, I said the connections would be closer/faster. The poemeranker server isn't close to everyone. A chat network with multiple servers worldwide is.

"ircds are set up to provide chatroom service to others, not to actually set up the channel, and services code is readily available via opensource."

No shit.

"folks could make their own private rooms and such."

Folks could do that on an IRC network. Why would they want a private channel on the poemeranker IRC server? And why would nentwined want to provide them with one?

"you dont seem to understand the slight differences between ircds and IRC CHANNELS, etc, linux daemons dont endow you with ircd knowledge apparently."

You can't read.

"linux? look, i am not a microsoft windows underling, so suddenly mentioning linux compels me to give an old reply: BSDi bitch, linux is an infant. BLEH."

And? I'm not having an os competition with you. I don't care what os you run. Poemeranker runs on Linux as far as I know.

Summary of the reasons for using an existing chat network:
1. Easier and quicker setup
2. Near 100% uptime
3. Faster connections
4. All the services an established network provides already up and running.

Summary of the reasons for running an irc daemon
1. "Folks could create their own private channels."
2. "It could be customised for poemeranker folk"

Well I just don't know which one to choose.

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