Re: [microsound] hotline server Q's

[miles <miles@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 02:59:20PM -0500, david turgeon wrote:
> hotline has its defects, but it at least does the 'file server' job
> right, which is already something.  as for chatting, for there to be
> _any_ activity in that area requires that people be connected whenever
> they're online, which doesn't seem to happen right now (normal, since we
> all have other things to do with our time) & i wonder if it would really
> be all the more active on irc...

Another drawback of hotline is that it's a closed protocol, which makes
it hard to integrate or automate.  Attaching some kind of administrative
web interface, for example, is essentially impossible.  Writing any kind
of bot or agent is also much harder for the same reason.

If we were use irc, it would make more sense to set up our own than to
create a channel on a public server.

miles