[northwestengland.pm] IRC Server Software

[Carl Johnstone]

Smylers wrote:
> Or maybe we should be using something else instead of IRC?
>
> All suggestions and tips gratefully received.  Thanks.

Asumming you've got a linux box handy, there's probably going to be a 
package available that you just need to install. I've done that in the 
past - then it's just a matter of controlling access to the server. I'd 
argue it's possibly easier to setup VPNs than have to expose a whole bunch 
of different services and control access to them individually - but to some 
degreee it depends what you've already got setup.

However I ditched our internal server in favour of a channel on 
irc.perl.org. IRC already has enough basic ACLs in place, and what you're 
doing probably isn't that interesting for the IRC server admins to listen in 
:-)

You'll probably also want to adopt IM of some sort - most people are more 
familiar with it than IRC.

Carl