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
Thanks. At this point I am not sure what program I am going to use, right now I am just collecting info on the service itself. I just wanna make sure I have all my info lined up and do it right. I have heard of ngircd though it seems fairly popular.
Basically what I want to do is
1. setup a secure irc server that requires authentication
2. have predetermined channels that are password protected
3. one chat channel that is not password protected
4. has a simplified web gui (which sits behind authentication) that will allow my clients to request support directly to my techs. from the context menu of my support application in the systray.
I am hoping to just pay someone to do this for me, as I really don't have the time to learn how to do it myself... but I will if I have to. DO you think my wishes are doable?
thanks again!