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>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Vandenburg <acts238@nbnet.nb.ca> writes:

    >> Actually... there is... I located a IRC daemon out at
    >> "freshmeat.net" (great resource for finding just about anything
    >> for Linux ) and it's called.....
    >> 
    >> ircd
    >> 
    >> .... it's up to version 5.3 I think.....
    >> 
    Frank> Bro. Tyler:

    Frank> Would this be a viable alternative to a private ICQ network
    Frank> then? Would people want a private IRC server? I'm not sure
    Frank> about all the issues involved.

IRC is designed to support groups of hundreds to thousands of users.
It is not very efficient of machine resources.  We already have a MOO
on elilabs.com/higherfire.org, and MOOs are pretty easy on the
resources.  I have been running 3 MOOs here for several years.

A MOO also lets users move from room to romm, or area to area, so many 
different conversations can take place all at once.  Another
alternative would be a MUSE, which is pretty much the same thing, only 
programmed different, and the user commands are different, but it does 
about the same thing.

I have been hosting the famous "Virtual Chicago" muse on elilabs.com
since about early July of this year.  It is a pretty active MUSE, yet
I rarely even notice that it is running, since it is so gentle on the
cpu. 

So the bottom line is:  

   WHY DON'T WE JUST USE THE BEULAHMOO WE ALREADY HAVE ???

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