On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 16:37 +0100, Sampsa Laine wrote: Guys, I've set up an IRC server for our use on silverback.sampsa.com port 6655 (non-standard port, I know). I'll be hanging out on channel #hecnet as often as I can. Although I think that putting up an IRC channel for HECnet is a fantastic idea, and I'm connecting after hitting "Send" - who knows, it might lead to the development of a proper VMS-style IRC client - I'm quite opposed to the "network per channel" thing: It strikes me a bit as having a mail server for each address, or insisting on setting up a new computer for every user account. Can't we please do this on a recognized, stable network - Freenode (irc.freenode.net) strikes me as being a very nice network for this kind of thing, and it already has a healthy #vms. I'll be in #hecnet there myself. I don't have any active hosts at the moment either - it is still summer! - but I still feel entitled to whine ;) Regards, -Tore :)