firstly i need to state that i use to be a member of staff and helped create sparkpea chat just so you guys know where im comming from on this reply
so here is a little General info about sparkpea
the sparkpea chat server is not any thing like paperirc, wavserver the old ignition server or any thing else remotly like that
the server has been coded 100% from scratch internally so its all there own work (coded in what i can't say ), just a few of us that knew about each type of chat protocall put out heads together and continuly work update adding new featurs
and also were not an msn emulation site either (although the msn chat controll is supported on the site its not out only chat interface !)
at first it started off just as your basic irc server as any would then from there we added in support for ircx, ircxpro, ircd (not to shure will have to chek on that), and then finally we had a few users come over from msn and we though well seeing as they alredy have the msn chat controll installed on there system why not meerly code the server to permit usage doing it that way dosent break any copywright laws or any thing like that as long as they have the ocx installed from the msn site (that means where the cab files are hosted just incase ne one was wondering every thing to do with the ocx being installed is left down to microsoft ) then we said hey we got the irc7 version working y not implamnet the irc8 protocalls also so we coded them in too then though to our selvs hmm now about microsoft comic chat so we coded in irc5 protocalls then when we had a few users that where having problems with the ocx and the irc side fo the site we though it would be a good idea to have a java chat controll (this was implamented at the time i was a staff memeber how ever i dont know if this is still avalible)on the site too to allow users to freely choose what chat controll they can use on the site,
and with thanx to webby i over the past year or so have solowly in my spare time been coding a vb chat controll that will once finished replace msn's chat controll entierly.
reguards
Terminal-Access
aka
Lee
