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0 pointssnuxoll10y ago0 comments

Compliance is an annoying issue with IRC. With Slack, Lync, or 99% of Jabber servers out there I can log every communication that takes place (outside of people using something like OTR with Jabber) - I can set up an IRC bot in every channel to log group chats, and maybe somehow disable private messages, but it's a pain in the butt to deal with IRC where compliance is a big deal (I work in healthcare).

I've often toyed with the idea of writing an IRCD with logging built in that drops all CTCP setup messages, but it's a huge hassle.

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f_10y ago

Indeed compliance is an issue with IRC, but you don't need to write an IRCd to log all messages and you don't even need to configure IRC services: you could just use InspIRCd [1] (which, by the way, is a superb and extensible IRCd) and an extension such as [2] to achieve what you are looking for.

[1] https://www.inspircd.org/ [2] https://github.com/joshenders/inspircd-m_chatlog

snuxollOP10y ago

I'll have to give it some investigation. I'm pretty confident in the ability of end users to figure out a basic IRC client, but logging made it a non-starter for our use cases - the chatlog module you linked is rather basic, but looking at the source it should be easy to extend for our usage.

LinuxBender10y ago

UnrealIRCD also has modules for this. You have to contact the site admin to acquire them. https://www.unrealircd.org/

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