Setting up a closed IRC channel
Can any IRC experts out there give me some pointers on setting up a closed IRC channel for the developers within my company? Background is that we (i.e. the developers employed by Kewill in the UK) have over the last couple of days attended a piss-u^H^H^H^H^H^H^H conference organised by the IT director. We were talking about ways we can keep in touch. General consensus was that e-mail and Windows IM weren't very good tools for this if we wanted to open up discussions to everybody and that a closed IRC channel might work well. Do I need to set up an in-house server or are there servers out there we can make use of? Regards, Keith ____________ The material thing before you, that is IT. - Huang-po
"Keith Watson" <keith.watson@kewill.com>
Can any IRC experts out there give me some pointers on setting up a closed IRC channel for the developers within my company? [...]
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/ircd/ if you do want to use a server. I'd suggest hybrid-7 as a starting point, but I'm not following it closely these days, so take that with a bucket of salt. Elsewhere on that site is help on IRC in general.
Do I need to set up an in-house server or are there servers out there we can make use of?
It depends how much security matters to you. Even if you are using a locked channel and all connect to the same server (not merely the same network) over SSL, there is still a risk of the server operator intercepting you. If you're not using SSL, using more than one server, and so on, it weakens it further. Setting up an in-house ircd is not too bad if you don't need to expose it to the internet. You might also find that a jabber server could do what you want and might be simpler if you know something about XML, XMPP and so on aren't that interested in IRC. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), Lynn, England, to email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:36:33AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
can keep in touch. General consensus was that e-mail and Windows IM weren't very good tools for this if we wanted to open up discussions to everybody and that a closed IRC channel might work well.
Do I need to set up an in-house server or are there servers out there we can make use of?
You want it to be in-house, well, personally I wouldn't want it to go outside my corporate network, especially if you are talking about corporate secrets etc. If I were you i'd also take a look at setting up your own in-house jabber server too. As this can do chatrooms and one to one IM (IIRC). Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem
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