John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
On Monday 24 Jun 2002 4:29 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
I'll see if I can find an "interconnect" bot for the first few meetings after the move, unless anyone has one to hand?
Cool, just for safety sake.
Certain people seem to be really annoyed by it. Not sure why. It's just a temporary thing for in meeting-time. Can it be approved? Possibly, but how?
So, where to move to? The options, in my current order of preference:
OFTC -- seems to be quite a few good ex-OPN staff who walked away because of the same problems that have annoyed me so much (bad routing, bad code, bad management). Probably #alug on uranium.oftc.net (or irc.) is best for UK users. Pros: stable, growing, software-specific net, channel registered, some like-minded souls (eg #brits); Cons: only one UK server at present (but I sort of hope at least one more will appear).
IRCnet -- probably +alug on ircnet.demon.co.uk port 6669, but other servers may exist that work for you. Pros: big net, should always be available, is in the server lists of many clients, friendly operator normally available, some like-minded souls (eg +linux.uk); Cons: no services, have to use /ignore a bit.
tsw -- probably a channel on tsw.org.uk port 6667 or 7001. Pros: local server, friendly operator normally available; Cons: network connection has been rather unstable in the past.
Feel free to add to the pros and cons.
A good idea that was suggested was pointing irc.alug.org.uk at whatever server we're going to use. So, don't worry, this will only happen once. Just keep pointing your client at irc.alug.org.uk after that. Neill, can you update the auto-announcement to say that? Hopefully, this will be decided before next week.
MJR