Bug#692789: ITP: hybserv -- IRC services for IRCD-Hybrid
[Dominic Hargreaves]
> HybServ is a daemon that connects to your IRCD-Hybrid server and
> automagically provides nickname, channel, memo, and oper services to your
> entire network if it is configured correctly to talk with your IRC server.
"Automagically"? When you install a server package, configure it, and
start it, and it then provides services, would you really describe that
as not only automated, but like magic?
It seems to me that that's a pretty pessimistic view of server software
in general. My own expectation is that if I install, configure and
start a daemon - any daemon - it will provide whatever services it is
supposed to provide. And if it does, I don't see anything especially
automatic or magical about it. I mean, _all_ software is "automatic"
in a sense, and very little software is really "magic".
All of which is to say, I would drop the word 'automagically'. And not
just because I dislike neologisms, although I do.
Peter
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