[IRCServices] mildly off topic?

[nick martini]

im on all the unreal lists, as well as ircservices and epona. and while
you are correct in saying that a lot of posts are from people having
problems, there are different reasons. 
for one thing, unreal has a very large feature set. there are a lot of
commands new and/or inexperienced people should not be using, but they
try anyway. they subsequently break something and post to the lists
asking for help.
another is due to pure inexperience. ive been on a few networks running
unreal (i shant name them, but im sure we've all had this experience)
where the admins are just totally clueless.

i run unreal beta, and it runs perfectly fine. aside from the whole
syntax error (re: typos) in the config file causes the ircd to go down,
its damn stable. 

ircservices works splendidly with it as well. 

theres my 2 cents :)

nk

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:34:44AM -0500, Ballsy wrote:
|> From: Ballsy <ballsy at mystical.net>
|> To: ircservices at ircservices.za.net
|> Subject: Re: [IRCServices] mildly off topic?
|> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211250909440.5041-100000 at david.mail.net>
|> Reply-To: ircservices at ircservices.za.net
|> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:34:44 -0500 (EST)
|> 
|> 	While this is somewhat like asking "What's the best operating 
|> system for my desktop" (in that the responses will vary, as everyone has 
|> their favourites), many folks on the list seem to use bahamut (1.4.30 or 
|> later), including myself, and it seems to get along with IRC Services just 
|> fine.
|> 	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.
|> 	It really depends on what you want from your IRCd though.  If 
|> you've been using Dreamforge until now, moving to bahamut may be the 
|> easiest transition.  Bahamut is designed for large networks though, in 
|> that it is not near as feature-rich as some other daemons, but can handle 
|> an incredible client load (there are servers on DALnet with 40K+ 
|> concurrent users).
|> 	The best way to go, I imagine, would be to check out the IRC 
|> Services docs to see what IRCds are supported, then look at those IRCds 
|> individually to see if they have what you want/need.
|> 
|> David
|> 
|> 
|> Quoth Chuck on Nov 25 at 06:56,
|> 
|> > It has been years since we have explored the software available in irc
|> > and now we want to upgrade our server software and services. Of course,
|> > what services to get is easy:).
|> > 
|> > My question is, what is the best open source server software available
|> > now that is 100% compatible with services?
|> > 
|> > We want it to 'run itself' once it is properly configured. We have not
|> > had to touch the old dreamforge software in the past 3 years at all, in
|> > fact forgot it was even running.
|> > 
|> > This will be a private, stand-a-lone server.
|> > 
|> > Suggestions and "problem warnings" will be most appreciated.
|> > 
|> > Chuck
|> > 
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