[IRCServices] mildly off topic?

[Andrew Church]

>	While I have absolutely no personal experience running Unreal 
>IRCd, dare I say that it seems to be responsible for the majority of the 
>"I have a problem" posts to this list.  I think these relate to specific 
>versions of Unreal though, as others apparently work just fine.

     Not quite related to the original post, but for what it's worth, I
think I've found the problem people have been reporting about ChanServ not
working in certain channels; it looks like I made a little thinko when I
was updating the code for 5.0.  I've got the fix done--assuming I located
the problem correctly--and I'll release a new version as soon as my system
update finishes (at the moment I can't compile anything).

     On the original topic, as David says, there's no single answer to the
question of "what IRC server is best?".  From personal experience, Bahamut
and Unreal seem to be the two most frequently used; Bahamut is good if you
want stability/efficiency, while Unreal provides more features, especially
channel modes.

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