From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 30 3:41:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [212.49.74.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F46F37B404 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 03:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (FreeBSD)) id 17DNMS-000DQV-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 13:40:52 +0300 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:40:52 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Shashi Dookhee Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free Chat servers?? Message-ID: <20020530104052.GN43398@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Shashi Dookhee , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <20020529164344.GB43398@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Never call a man a fool X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 1:38PM up 10 days, 4:09, 2 users, load averages: 0.49, 0.46, 0.47 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Shashi Dookhee [20020530 13:32]: wrote: > Just set up an ircd daemon (efnet, undernet, dalnet, etc)... > > Then use a java chat client (lots out there) to connect to it. > > Has the added bonus that standalone clients (like mIRC) can connect too! > > Thanks I have nfc running but what I don't like is the idea that applets are not locally stored. I may be wrong as I am not a java guru but it appears to me that the applets are being dynamically fetched..is this so, by any chance? At the moment now() I am installing ethereal to see what it could be like. Thanks for the feedback. Basically I am after something that is web-based that I wanna add to my site. [..] > > Any recommendations as to 'free' chat servers out there? I've seen nfc > > from sourceforge but not any others. I'd like to give my users a web > > interface to chat out and so looking for recommendations. > > NFC looks good but so far I have a problem getting it up... [..] -Wash ------=====================================------ Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd E: WASH@wananchi.com www.wananchi.com P: (254)2 313 985-9 1st Floor Loita Hse F: (254)2 313 922 Loita St., NAIROBI ------=====================================------ ++ The cow is nothing but a machine with makes grass fit for us people to eat. -- John McNulty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message