[Cialug] irc proxy

[Nathan Stien]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> A couple times a year I wish I could disconnect from IRC and not miss
> interesting things going on. I've heard of IRC proxies and the way I
> understand it, they allow your nic to remain connected all the time
> and your client connects and disconnects from the proxy at will. While
> disconnected the proxy shows you as away (or something) and when you
> re-connected you somehow catch-up with what you missed.

I want this for other chat networks too.  AIM/Jabber/etc.

Like screen(1) for chat.

- Nathan