<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Ben Cooksley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcooksley@kde.org" target="_blank">bcooksley@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Laszlo Papp <<a href="mailto:lpapp@kde.org">lpapp@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Riccardo Iaconelli <<a href="mailto:riccardo@kde.org">riccardo@kde.org</a>><br>
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>> On sabato 7 maggio 2016 18:23:10 CEST Myriam Schweingruber wrote:<br>
>> > I wonder why nobody<br>
>> > examined this POV before starting to shift to Telegram. In this regard<br>
>> > Mattermost appears to make much more sense as we could run it on our<br>
>> > own servers, if we really need a phone client.<br>
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>> Speaking as maintainer of a project which heavily uses Telegram: it allows<br>
>> backlogging and it is usable from behind any connection. For me it is<br>
>> impossible to connect to IRC from the University, the University campus or<br>
>> the<br>
>> research labs.<br>
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> Why?<br>
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</span>Universities usually firewall their internet connections to permit<br>
only port 80 and 443 outbound.<br>
Sometimes you have to use an authenticated proxy to do that as well.<br>
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If you're lucky some universities will allow port 22 (SSH) outbound.<br>
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This makes IRC unavailable obviously, although tools such as Telegram,<br>
Slack, etc. which all use https and websockets to function work<br>
perfectly fine.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure that I can realise the obvious here. I had used IRC in such an environment for years. If I recall it correctly, all I needed was an interim box. In worst case, I am sure that this would not be a problem for the KDE infrastructure to help a few KDE contributors in that case out. If it was, we need to think about a solution for the community in my opinion.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Regards,<br>
Ben<br>
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>> Bye,<br>
>> -Riccardo<br>
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