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Re:IRC is dead, long live IRC by Symmetry on Friday January 04, 2013 @08:40AM (#5007521)
IRC is nice, but I still like Zephyr, the origonal IM system, better. Except for the little problem with NAT traversal...
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Re:IRC is dead, long live IRC by gwillen on Friday January 04, 2013 @12:39PM (#5008699)
NAT traversal barely scratches the surface. The Zephyr protocol is a crime against nature and nature's god. :-P

(I do like the class/instance structure, though, and that's never been duplicated anywhere else as far as I know. A friend and I made a plugin for irssi that allows you to use instances on IRC, but it never caught on.)

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Re:IRC is dead, long live IRC by __alexs on Friday January 04, 2013 @10:51AM (#5008120)
The UNIX write and talk commands are both over a decade older than Zephyr.
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