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- From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: /summon command?
- Message-ID: <BtsBCJ.1BM@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 06:57:41 GMT
- References: <1992Aug9.013000.15607@newshost.anu.edu.au> <BspC1J.7r0@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <26522@life.ai.mit.edu> <3294@carroll1.cc.edu>
- Sender: randall@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
- Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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- dprust@carroll1.cc.edu (Dan Prust) writes:
- > gwydion@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Lord of the Third Truth) writes:
- >>IUpholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
- >>>well, here's a radical idea, have /summon check the CLIENTS connected from
- >>>a specific host and use the CLIENT instead of the server to issue the
- >>>actual /summon.
- >>
- >>*ungh*
-
- >Wait a second, call me crazy, but if their client is running... why /summon?
-
- Not their client.. but another client on the same host.
- ie, bob@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu is running a client.. but I want to summon
- bill@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu... if there is no server running on uxa, then
- why not allow the client that bob@uxa to notifiy bill@uxa that
- whoever@anywhere wants to speak with them on IRC?
-
-
- >Seems to me that if you want to be radical, issue a /summon command and have
- >it get the host name. Exactly what is wrong (or so damn hard) with using
- >another of the ports (extensive number of which can be used) to run a seperate
- >summoning program? It wouldn't be hard at all to write, really. Have the
- >client extract the name from nickserv and send a message to summon this person
-
- The Idea above is intended to allow anyone with a client installed to summon
- anyone who's host currently has EITHER a server or a client currently connected
- to the IRC net. The main problem with using a SEPERATE daemon is that it
- would need to be installed on EVERY machine...
-
- The Client is already intalled on every machine (well, almost anyway.. =)
- so why not just include the summon daemon code in the client? Sure it would
- not always be running, but at a site with 10 or 12 users, the odds are good
- that SOMEONE would be on IRC most of the time.
- --
- The Upholder of Truth I am not only ready to
- Upholder@uiuc.edu (BSD/ASCII mail) retract this, but also
- jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) deny I said anything. =)
- wi.4173@wizvax.methuen.ma.us (anon. mail) This is *NOT* CCSO's opinion.
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