[Cialug] irc proxy

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Tue Nov 4 15:25:56 CST 2008


Nathan Stien wrote:
> 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.
>   

I use pork as my aim client in a screen session. It works pretty well.

http://dev.ojnk.net/

-dc




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