Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: >I'd like an app that will announce to a central server that I'm online (or >maybe distributed servers that communicate with each other for better >stability), and that my client can check to see if my friends are logged >in, where they're logged in, etc. > >Then it could fire up a talk client for you easily. Personally, I think
IRC does all this... The problem with IRC seems to be the general insecurity and instability of the protocol. I suspect ircIII (or whatever it'll be called -- a new version of the IRC protocol) would solve all of this, and maybe even be backwards-compatible with ircII clients, if someone would get around to designing the protocol and writing an RFC and a sample implementation. I don't know the current status of ircIII, but I heard rumours of it being designed somewhere about two years ago. Perhaps one could ask about it on alt.irc or comp.protocols.tcp-ip.misc, or search the Web... And form a working group if none exist now. (I'm not interested enough, as I use IRC and talk very little...) -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
