[IRCServices] Is there a timeline in the future for supporting ircd2.9 or greater

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Wed Aug 21 01:17:00 PDT 2002


>On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:25:41PM +0900, Andrew Church wrote:
>>      For what it's worth, I agree with you 100%, and that's why I still
>> have RFC1459 support in Services even though I'm pretty positive there
>> are zero people out there using it.  Now all you have to do is convince the
>> users of the zillions of other ircds to conform to standards.  Good luck.
>> (See also the comments in my draft IRC protocol proposal at
>> http://achurch.org/irc3/ .)
>
>One of the biggest problems these days is that everyone and their pet ape
>has a redesign of IRC that they want to call IRC3. They think they know
>what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and they finally knew
>how IRC could be made a good and happy place. They think that this time
>it was right, it would work, and no one would have to diverge from the new
>IRC3 standard ever again...

     Good grief, you seem to think I consider myself God with respect to
IRC.  I have no such misconceptions; that's why I called it a "draft IRC
protocol proposal" and not a "new IRC standard".  Take it easy, man.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/