[Cialug] irc proxy

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I use pidgin as an ICQ client on my home desktop machine. I leave the 
program open 24/7 and just set my status to "away" when i'm not at the 
computer or not interested in chatting. I'm guessing you've already 
thought of that and rejected it, but if not that may be an option. (I 
can think of numerous reasons why that might not work: computer is a 
laptop that isn't always connected, or you turn the computer off at 
night, or you're on dial-up but have a remote server online 24/7, 
or...)

On Tuesday November 4 2008 15:16, 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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