Re: Irssi next generation

On 24.8.2004, at 20:59, Jakub Jankowski wrote:

> On 2004-08-24, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> Some thoughts I had today:
>> http://iki.fi/tss/nextgen-irc.txt
>
> I'm worried about server performance. Think about such network growing 
> to 100k or more users. Features like SSL/TLS would make it even 
> heavier.

You're thinking it as wrong kind of server. These servers would serve 
only a few people. Anyone can run such a server. It's not a new 
network, it uses existing networks. Typically you'd run the server in 
same computer where you currently run your IRC client.