[AC-Admins] Website requests/thoughts

[Pippin Bear]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:30:38PM -0400, Solei wrote:
> OBFUSCATING E-MAIL ADDRESSES

Another way is described here:
http://verplant.org/obfumail.shtml

It involves using CSS and is transparent to any web browser that
implements CSS.  It relies on spambots *not* implementing CSS (which
they really don't - it just isn't worth it).

Of course, a web form would also be good - but do add a humanity-test
thingy to it - spambots also go round randomly filling in web forms with
advertising material and pushing the submit buttons.

> PHOTOS OF US ON THE SITE

The old web site had photos and stuff about the admins, so you might
want to bring that forward to the new site so we don't have to redo
what's already there.

> How 'bout go out for a meal together? :D)

I like that idea. :)

> ADDING LINKS TO OTHER IRC CLIENTS

> (I will not list Xchat here because their windows client is no longer
> free. What the fuck?

So it would appear from their web site.  However, if there any GPLed
source code goes into that non-free Windows Xchat binary that is not
written by the people publishing the non-free binary (and for which they
haven't got permission), they are most likely violating the copyright
licence of that source code.  That's the purpose of the GPL - to ensure
that a program cannot be made non-free unless *all* the authors agree.

> **Linux:**
> Xchat
> BitchX

Personally I dislike BitchX.  I don't want my client to make random
distasteful (and sometimes obscene) remarks on my behalf when I sign off.

> Any others you think I should include? Add 'em to the list!

GAIM.  I use it on the rare occasions when I IRC from my netbook.
Seems to me to work okay.

> ADDING USEFUL INFORMATION TO CGI:IRC PAGE
> the 5 to 10 most populated channels. I like this idea a whole lot. HEY 
> PIPPIN! That nifty Nagios thinggy you have- is there a way to get it to 
> post information of this sort to a MySQL server?

You mean the top n channels?  I don't measure that.  I run nagios to check
liveness of the IRC server daemons, and a perl script called ircgraph to
collect user counts, but I don't collect any information about channels.
You'd have to do that another way.

I'd suggest just list the channels, pick the top 10, and list them on
the page.  Or list the command they'll need to show the current top
10 channels.  Or have the CGI IRC thing issue the command for them when
they log on.

Pippin