Hey gayle... thanks for the nuke2mos script, great work.
Very simple too.. taught me a lot in a little bit about,
the database abstraction layer and authentication
configuration. I been out of the mambo loop a bit...
What you're doing btw, simply, is comparing IRC to Jabber.
Which is comparing an archaic bug ridden relayed chat server to a
w3c's compliant xml based multi network
multi presence communications server.
with innate security chat, im and offline messaging features.
Now I LOVE IRC... but it's not a safe thing by any means, and
even if it was safe, I don't think anyone feels like teaching newbies
irc commands... some people simply CANNOT LEARN IT. (& they're not stupid)
Me though... I lived on EFnet dang near 9 years. I know it like
the back of my hand... Normally I would be like.. communications?
reliable? redundant? IRC!... not anymore man..
The conglomerates AOL and MSN and Yahoo are OWNING the
communications mediums, IRC is a rougue network.. We need
mainstream stuff like jabber... It's very extensible and it's open source.
Seriously the best option for everybody is to find out a way for us to
have the FlashChat from
http://tufat.com/script.php?id_num=2
integrated with mambo and jabber. with group based acl's
limiting what users other users can see while having the
ability of external messaging communications with your
web application.
You guys seem to forget... there's a billion jabber clients,
written for every os... in every language... and it looks
just like an Aol instant messenger... Imagine having one
that was totally your own.
Am I overly presumptious here? I thought we all wanted some
kick butt congregational tools.