Re: Instant chats and central servers

[Peter van Dijk <peter () dataloss nl>]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:35:27AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
[snip]
> If folks are using this these services for real-time communications,
> should we be trying to improve their reliability?  Or is this just a
> "feature" of how presence services work.

We use IRC for internal communication, and for communication with
techies of several other Dutch ISPs. Works like a charm, and the irc
server is local to us. If it's down, you pick another irc-server on
the same network.

Works for us, works for lot of people.

Greetz, Peter.