n0dalus wrote: 
On 4/24/06, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)
<speeddymon@gmail.com> wrote:
  
Fine whatever.. Personally I dont like having to keep an irc client
open, but i would be more inclined to do so if we had our own server...
Then we could do java irc from one of the website's servers, making
another point of contact (and also making live help more readily
accessible to those unfamiliar with irc)...
    

There's no reason we can't set up a java irc client to connect to freenode.

n0dalus.
The popular opinion on Java is to /dev/null it...

We could use CGI:IRC, but then Freenode would jump our asses, bitch us out, and K:Line us for cloning, at which we would be at the mercy of lilo and the other ops...

Of course, we could always use a Java client :)