tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 14 00:08:14 1999
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Re: tlhIngan irc chat room
>I'm afraid I have to agree with malqa, I've used IRC ever since I started
>on the internet (Back in 94) and I've tried to set up #tlhIngan on dalnet
>and other irc servers, and even advertised here and no one ever showed up,
>except people who would ask me if I spoke Klingon, and then laughed and
>left. The only person who ever stayed around was _worf_.
That's me }}:-) (I vaguely remember back then! Still have logs somewhere,
though.)
>The other problem with large IRC servers is you lose a lot of control over
>what goes on, you can't control the services (DALnet's is nearly always
>down) which mean you lose control over the channel. Also, you generate a
>lot of lag, due to messages going through a lot of different servers
>before getting to you. You also have the problem of netsplits (when a hub
>crashes, disconnecting everything on either side of it).
I know of a small, but worldwide network that I frequent a lot, and it's
quite lagless (although there is the occaisonal split or two). It's called
OpenProjects (www.openprojects.net), and there are servers split up
everywhere. Small network, low lag, and very underused.
A /LUSERS report:
Users: 244 Invisible: 296
Servers: 32
Channels: 154
I went there because I followed another group of people there (who were fed
up with dalnet lag/splits). And yes, it has the standard
Nick/Chan/Memo/etc-Services. There is a round-robin DNS at
irc.openprojects.net, with locale-specific round-robin DNS (e.g.,
irc.eu.openprojects.net, irc.us.openprojects.net) and suchforth. [Update:
webpages are at http://openprojects.nu, moved from
http://www.openprojects.net, and servers can be accessed as: eu.opirc.nu,
us.opirc.nu, etc.]
Only thing this network doesn't have are web and telnet IRC interfaces.
>If the problem is spreading the word, then most Klingon speakers goto the
>KLI web page, or are on this list (or other lists). I can easily send out
>a message to the 5 or 6 star trek/klingon lists I'm on telling people
>about the server.
>
>That said, if everyone want to move to a large server, then I'll follow
>along, even though I think it's a bad idea.
OPN is highly underused. ~500-1000 people to 32 IRC servers...
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