[Cialug] irc proxy

[David Champion]

Have you looked into using an IRC bot to do this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_bot

"A bot can also perform many other useful functions, such as logging 
what happens in an IRC channel..."

I've used some in the past. Some of the bot auto reply parsing is fairly 
good too, if you ever need to do that sort of thing.

-dc

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> 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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