From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 9 15:30:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA13640 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 15:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.intrastar.net (BSD.INTRASTAR.NET [206.136.25.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA13629 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 15:30:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jsuter@localhost) by bsd.intrastar.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00418; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 17:22:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 17:22:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jacob Suter To: Thomas J Balfe cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRC Network In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Thomas J Balfe wrote: > Some FreeBSD friends and I have formed something we call BSDNet, it's an > irc network that we use instead of EFNet after much frustration with it > inherent lag and splits. We are looking to expand the network. It is > completely free. Sounds good.. what are your requirements? > If you are waiting for your EFNet C/N or you want an replacement for > EFNet as we did, simply write and we can issue a C/N to BSDNet. The only > restriction is that we don't allow any SysV type servers. Good idea.. SysV would waste the BSD in the name :) > That shouldn't be a problem, you're already subscribed to freebsd-isp and > know what works and what doesn't. I look forward to hearing from FreeBSD > based ISPs and ISPs that enjoy their FreeBSD system and want an irc server > connection to a BSD oriented irc network. Sounds spiffy. Trying to deal with EFnet is a nightmare.. > If you want to try it out to see which server is closest to you, grab the > ircii port or package and /server irc.tioga.com, then /join #freebsd, > you'll find us there. I'm here, and it looks good. I'd probibly try to use my 386DX/40 FreeBSD machine as the server on my 56K network (about 10% used imcoming, 2% outgoing usage right now normally).. Oh, well, I think you are online.... Damn, you went to go watch Wings :P TTYL JS