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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59
Black Unicorn (unicorn@schloss.li)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:18:30 -0500
At 09:14 PM 8/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
Sure, but how much of a perfectionist do you want to be?
>> Of course, something along the lines of ICQ using TCP/IP and
>> encrypted/authenticated would make me salivate just as much
>
>ICQ is worse.
I'm hardly suggesting we use UDP, I'm just talking appearance.
>> 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 ...
Again, I'm talking functionality, not methodology.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:10:59