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by Symmetry 4918 days ago
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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gwillen 4918 days ago
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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__alexs 4918 days ago
The UNIX write and talk commands are both over a decade older than Zephyr.
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