[JDEV] IRC?

[Jukka Tapani Santala]

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 Isotope2k at aol.com wrote:
> I had very similar questions... 
> Check out RFC1459, there seems to be a concensus that an IRC
> transport implementation would be fairly straightforward.

Careful - the RFC, which isn't on standards track, and never can be - is
pretty old and outdated. Not neccessarily anything that'd cause an
immediate problem, but bad enough. Especially as the actual server-server
communication on IRC is basically properietary to each network (There's
some major development lines - Hybrid/Bahamut, Dreamforge, Undernet to
name a few) and I can't see an useful "interface"(*) to IRC without making
a pseudo-server for the purpose. Getting such a server dropped into any
major network would be harder than ugly.

(*) Or would a transport just span a million and one separate connections
to attack a poor, hapless IRC server..? Can you say... clone-kills!
Mass-bans! ;)

 -Donwulff