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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 21:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Black Unicorn wrote:
> At 04:46 PM 8/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >I'd love to see this idea (whose time has come, really) come to frutation.
> >If we could make a distributed and secure alternative to IRC, I'm sure it'd
> >be widely-used.
>
> Why not piggy-back off the existing (and substantial) IRC network?
IRC protocol has, ahem, room for improvement.
> Of course, something along the lines of ICQ using TCP/IP and
> encrypted/authenticated would make me salivate just as much
ICQ is worse.
> Hint: If you REALLY want it to work and gather thousands of users in about
> a weeks time, make sure that IRC style DCC file transfers (encrypted of
> course) are easy to arrange.
I'll agree with you there.
Now as to the quality of the DCC protocol itself ...
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59