And that's why I won't use IRC at a company. I can think of many ways I don't want management knowing or prodding into my life.<div><br></div><div>I am a part of and run many community channels, but those have nothing to do with my commitment to my work. I prefer IM because it allows me to be more direct with the people that matter at what phase of the day i'm in.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For open source projects, i'll give an exception, as the people are helpful (just as long as its not a Debian channel) and I get information before any of the lists do.</div><div><br><div>--Cameron<a href="http://ghostfreeman.net" target="_blank"></a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:51 PM, chip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip.gwyn@gmail.com">chip.gwyn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
We use an IRC server at my work. It's great! I like it SO much more<br>
than just some Instant Messenger. I like the social aspect of it.<br>
Whenever I'm talking to a co-worker in a channel about a problem,<br>
everyone else can see and chime in or just watch and learn. You can<br>
still have private communication between users but we find that<br>
discussion in an open channel is really helpful. Our NOC uses it too.<br>
Communication is super easy between everyone and the escalation point<br>
people. They can step in whenever needed, otherwise just watch things<br>
come and go. IRC is probably the most used way to communicate in our<br>
organization, at least with the technical/operational folks.<br>
<br>
It also helps people to socialize a bit, just discussing random things<br>
about their lives and what not.<br>
<br>
--chip<br>
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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Collin Pruitt <<a href="mailto:collin@collinp.com">collin@collinp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 2/28/2012 11:13 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
>> Friends:<br>
>><br>
>> I would like to setup an IRC server on our intranet. Has anyone in<br>
>> this mailing list done it ? Are there generic guidelines for this ?<br>
>><br>
>> -Narahari<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I like IRC. I still use it regularly as well, in addition to helping run<br>
> a IRC network. However, IRC doesn't have much use unless you're planning<br>
> on running a network similar to the ones that already exist (open,<br>
> unmoderated), or you want to do some testing. There are better solutions<br>
> for intranet communications. Take a look at Jabber, or Bonjour, or any<br>
> of the many other solutions.<br>
><br>
> If you're still determined to do this, then I could walk you through the<br>
> steps off-list on setting up a IRC server of your flavor of choice<br>
> (ircd-hybrid, Unreal, ircd-seven [what freenode runs], etc). It's not<br>
> that it's especially hard, it's just that there's a lot of places where<br>
> it could go wrong and IRC servers are *extremely* picky about that.<br>
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