[MPlayer-dev-eng] #mplayerdev irc channel, was Re: [PATCH] nsv demuxer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:51:49PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> 
> > Anyway as you are finnaly moving, could I suggest the developer
> > channel to be moved to freenode?
> 
> > The IrcNet have very mean policy and I usually have troubles
> > connecting to it. Regular splits, overloaded servers, and limiting
> > connections to same domain.
> 
> Freenode has even meaner policy, their servers always spit out "Bad user 
> data" to my xchat session and drop the connection immediately :-) Oddly 
> enough, ircII works from the same machine.

This means your realname is set to something invalid (probably empty
string). Set it properly. This wouldn't be a problem if your
/etc/passwd file were valid, btw. :)

> In comparison, ircnet is pure heaven, when I can complain to my ISP if 
> the server doesn't work :-)

I agree freenode sucks, but it's the most accessible to people. Ircnet
sucks too. My vote would be efnet of course but since we already have
freenode let's just stick with it.

Rich