[TriLUG] gaim/ircd help

[Owen Berry]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:20:25PM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Owen Berry wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:29:36AM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> >>I find that I can only set the server for the protocol
> >>"Jabber" - presumably the servers are fixed for the other
> >>protocols.
> >
> >Do you have the option of IRC for the protocol? That should allow you to
> >enter the server address, and speak the right "language".
> 
> no. The IRC option has no server box. I assume it goes to 
> yahoo or something like that. Only jabber allows me to pick 
> a server

Something strange going on there ... both 1.5.0 clients I tried (FC4 and
Gentoo) had server options for IRC. Which makes sense since IRC is not
under centralized control, unlike most of the other protocols.

Owen