On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:49:44PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de> writes:
> > I'm in need of a (very basic) chat server, based on technologies available
> > for NetBSD (client and server).
> What's wrong with IRC?

While I agree, in principle (the closest thing to a real live production
system I run personally is an IRC server on NetBSD/pmax), have you ever
*looked* at the IRC server code? It *defines* "tissue of hacks". If there's
something better out there, or at least something different that fits his
needs, I'd recommend staying away from IRC.