You don't HAVE to run an IRC Server; that is way out of scope of the irc chat addon at ubbdev... Just becasue I choose to run an IRC server for my network doesn't mean you or anyone else does...

The addon is simply a java applet that connects to one of the millions of FREE IRC servers.

Again, you do NOT HAVE TO RUN an IRC SERVER to use the IRC CHAT ADDON as the chat addon is an IRC Client capable of connecting to IRC Servers.

I know of NO host which woudl not allow users to use a java irc client as the host that is forwarded is that of the users who connect as the java applet is run from the users machine.

Not to mention, if you wanted to run an irc server, you could just rent a shell account and forward an A record from your domain to there, thus not hosting an irc server on ones standard hosting wink

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