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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:02:40 -0600 (GMT-0600)
From: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez <victor@usac.edu.gt>
To: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steve wrote:

> > 
> > > 1. My users want to create channels which are kept alive by the server
> > >    indefinitely. They say that ussualy this is accomplished by giving a
> > >    channel a "+f" mode or something like that, but with this server it
> > >    does not work. Any ideas?
> > 
> >  That's impossible. I'm afraid your users are mistaken.
> 
> I believe people run irc bots to do this.  I think you could set up
> eggdrop for this - but its not such a secure thing to do.

Thanks to the people who replied to my question about IRC server. I
downloaded two bots: Eembot and Eggdrop. I am using eembot now and still
investigating eggdrop. The server now runs fine and I can now keep some
channels alive, automatically give privileges, etc.

Cheers,

Victor Carranza
University of San Carlos, Guatemala