Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!mothra.nts.uci.edu!meggers From: meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: IRC and Security Message-ID: <27DEB17E.23612@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 13 Mar 91 23:10:54 GMT References: <7748@uceng.UC.EDU> <7753@uceng.UC.EDU> Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: mothra.nts.uci.edu pmartin@uceng.UC.EDU (Paul Martin) writes: >Sorry but IRC appears to be SOLELY used for entertainment. This is a >poor example of how to spend the students and taxpayers money. I just had two requests for a multiparty talk facility. One was from the Biology department, and the other was from the campus newpaper. Both are interested in keeping track of a conference interaction, and both do not want to take notes / hold meetings. The only thing that is scaring them away is that it takes a moderately knowledgeable Unix person to install and maintain. Personally I think phone conferences are much more productive, but recording sessions might be very useful. /mde/