Re: irc
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net Jul 30, 2001
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On 30 Jul 2001, at 20:02, martin.stachon at worldonline.cz wrote: > > Not crazy. I have 3 programs online now, working on multipath irc, > > redundant/backup links and all that. > > You must like the IRC much, you are still talkin about it. Don't you ? ;) Well, yeas and no. It is *easy* real-time communication, with many abilities and options, even tho i have no one to communicate with anymore. Seems everyone wants to exclude people from life for one reason or another, usually because the other person is a little different, and 99.999% of people can't expand their rigidly fixed mental boxes to accomodate exception processing in their preconcieved steriotypes, even online!! For instance, 10% people often state as a fact that i cannot be typing this manually, and then they refuse to talk to me on irc. So, yes, i like the method of irc, but it is still populated by (or "infested by", take your pick) humans. The drawback to irc is the lack of fault tolerance in the tcp connection. I'm not advocating udp, i'd prefer tcp and the original premise of the internet: data will get thru in a timely fashion, no matter how many servers are taken down. Sadly, this goal has yet to be realised, especially on irc. I am just trying to gather stats on the current protocol's connection liabilities for now, but having to stop everything and figure out Windoze is slowing me down a lot. Kat