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- From: dfraser@mother.com (Dan J. Fraser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: IRC request
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 07:35:30
- Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
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- In article <19960229.7BF5820.9660@sdcc8.ucsd.edu> jfriesne@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner) writes:
- > I tend to disagree here; The CLChat package works perfectly okay on
- > an Amiga, and there's no reason why irc wouldn't work as well, up
- > to a certain loading point.
-
- The CLChat network is lucky if it sees ten users in an evening. That's not really
- a fair comparison with IRC.
-
- > Since when does IRC have anything to do with "mission-critical reliability"???
-
- When an IRC server goes down, it is painful for all the users on IRC. Have
- you not noticed netsplits in the past? Do you not find them annoying?
- Have you not seen the stability problems they cause over the entire IRC
- network?
-
- When your are working with a team of other systems to provide a service,
- reliability becomes a very serious issue.
-
- > > If you want to run an IRC server, you should probably invest in a real
- > > computer.
- > Oh, I see, now we've descended into blatant flame-baiting.
-
- Perhaps I did not choose my words carefully enough. By "real computer,"
- I was referring to the classes of machines above the personal computer
- market.
-
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