[Cialug] irc proxy

[Matthew Nuzum]

A couple times a year I wish I could disconnect from IRC and not miss
interesting things going on. I've heard of IRC proxies and the way I
understand it, they allow your nic to remain connected all the time
and your client connects and disconnects from the proxy at will. While
disconnected the proxy shows you as away (or something) and when you
re-connected you somehow catch-up with what you missed.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of product? For me IRC
is like (or more important) than my telephone and I just don't have
the ability to do much trial and error.

The IRC client I use is pidgin. What happens when you use this type of
product and reconnect after a weekend, do you suddenly get flooded
with all of the backlog? Can anyone recommend a particular IRC proxy I
can run on my own personal (Ubuntu 6.06) server?

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Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode