From: eroberts@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Marble)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Faster Small Chat Services
Summary: I got one...
Keywords: chat, haven
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:03:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: slate.1992Apr09.210354.6408
Followup-To: this group, or me, or Dan Quayle
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


	Several people have expressed an interest in getting a simple,
small chat service. I might be able to help... I am in possession of a
small chat server, that will work either through telnet, or its own client
(called the hhc, which is small, handy, and easy to use), or various mud
clients, for that matter. This server is known as a haven, and was written
by someone else, from whom I would have to get permission before giving out
any of his code. Either that, or I could get you in contact with him so
*you* could get permission. He's quite a reasonable fellow, and I would
imagine he'd have no problem if you took the time to have some kind words
with him...

	When I got this code, it had such unsavory features as security
levels, the ability to kill, hide from, hide, rename, change the channel
of, send an anonymous message to, and force other players. Needless to say,
among the group of people who frequented this chat originally, many
problems developed as a result of these (IMHO stupid and juvenile) power
trips. I have hacked out all of these abilities from the code, and all
users are on a common ground.

	Some quick features: (I have not been on IRC, so I don't know what
you have there)
	-current version is running on a NeXT and takes up less than 25k
	 when stripped (the server that is)

	-client allows for private messages to be hilighted, and keeps your
	 lines of input from being "run over" by others' messages which
         come through when you're typing, as often happens with telnet

	-single-character channels, any printable character may be used

	-control-codes are filtered out

	-can hold about 25-30 people max (maybe more, depending on your 
	 machine). I imagine this is adequate for small conferences.

	-messages can *easily* be sent either to just one person, or to
	 all channels at once

	-the list of who is on includes a field for idle time, and the
	 host they are connecting from, as well as name, channel, and line
	 number.

	-commands are simple, with a / and one character, and perhaps a
	 number or character after that, depending on the command. There
	 is a simple on-line help screen, and an info screen, which are 
	 called up with /? and /i respectively, and can be changed at 
	 any time, from your shell.

	-pose, all-channel pose, and private pose are supported. This may
	 not be important, but I thought I'd mention it.

	This is starting to get really long, so I'll wrap it up. The
version I have running right now is up on morose.cc.purdue.edu port 4242,
and may be accessed most simply through telnet:

telnet morose.cc.purdue.edu 4242

	Come and take a look if you like, although it may be quite
deserted. Feel free to mail me at eroberts@slate.mines.colorado.edu.
The code was written by Chris Eleveld, aka The Insane Hermit, and I can't
give it out without his permission. In any case, good luck.

	Elizabeth Roberts (aka Marble)

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