[37287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Instant chats and central servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter van Dijk)
Tue May 8 15:10:37 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 20:50:29 +0200
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010508183527.13405.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net>; from sean@donelan.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:35:27AM -0700
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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:35:27AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> If folks are using this these services for real-time communications,
> should we be trying to improve their reliability? Or is this just a
> "feature" of how presence services work.
We use IRC for internal communication, and for communication with
techies of several other Dutch ISPs. Works like a charm, and the irc
server is local to us. If it's down, you pick another irc-server on
the same network.
Works for us, works for lot of people.
Greetz, Peter.
