I read through your irc articles, and I am very grateful. I will be setting up a corp irc server in the coming weeks. This server will host channels for our tech support staff, execs in house. We want to prevent users from creating channels at will, query is fine, but we don't want channels all over the place. is this doable in irc?
We are also planning on putting up a web gui that will allow our customers to initiate support requests from a website directly into a "support" channel monitored by our staff. So I don't want end-users creating channels at will either.
Thanks!
-Tony
Re: IRC Questions
Hello ajfarson,
First, you are most welcome. Thanks for reading. The quick answer to your question is that it depends on the IRC implementation. By default, you can create a channel on the fly by typing "join #somechannel" and that channel will continue to exist until the last person logs out. The IRC server I am using (called ngircd) does allow me to limit the number of channels a user can join. Are you planning on running your own IRC server then? Do you have a particular program in mind?
-- Marcel