Klarinet Archive - Posting 001060.txt from 1998/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Chat at 4:00 PM EDT
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:32:39 -0400

I looked into using sneezy as an IRC and for a Java chat. 2 things
immediately pop up:

1) IRC ends up being anarchy very quickly & side discussions end up
dragging people off. Not to mention the predators lurking about ... The
management aspects mean that I will never have Sneezy as an IRC relay
site. Anyone can create & advertise a channel on the main servers,
though - Sneezy just won't be one of them.

2) When Java gets to more people, I'll probably set up a limited channel
Java chat system. However, that's probably a year or so away (the number
of people running Netscape 3.0 or IE 3.0 is amazing! Neither of those
support Java 1.1, never mind 1.2!) I _do_ have to monitor the system,
though, to keep out unwanted discourse. I monitor activities daily as it
is ...

What I probably will do is set up a vt100 based chat system, on the
assumption that just about everyone on the Internet can come up with a
reasonable vt100 emulator. Sneezy (the new one) will be able to handle
100's of simultaneous connections; the current system starts bogging at
10 or 15.
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Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

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