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?
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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,
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
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