TalkEasy

You see, thats the thing. MSN cannot, and will never close Sparkpea. Sure they can order the site not to supply links to the OCX, but for them to do so, they would have to be actively seen to be chasing every site on the globe that supplies a link to theyre software. Also, i can tell you havent spent much time on Sparkpea? The servers are largely IRCX (Sure it supports MSN OCX, it also supports WebTV) but that isnt the point. I beleive that the only connection method to buzzen is via an IRC8 authentication? Not the case with Sparkpea or phreik. So yeah, even without any msn software, the 2 latters sites could still very much function. Buzzen (from where i am standing) could not. Also, this is @ Molson, on the topic of 'buzzen needs donations, sparkpea doesnt, look who can take 5000 users , look who cannot' This is not a personal opinion, this is plain fact. Every other 'clone' had at least a 1 year's head start on Sparkpea. So its natural that those sites should have such an advantage. This is not my point, my point is that on the Sparkpea. There was some tweaks done lately, and it can now hold well in excess of 5000 people. Surely you have noticed a massive improvement (ive seen your nickname there recently). Cant remember who said 'Koach's server or Vsixc chat .. i don't think i'll put much effort into chat servers that might and might not be around for long !' The clones have all be round quite a long time already. And there is no reason why they shouldnt be around for some time to come. Even seen some sites now cloning the Microsoft tech net Chats. The ones that support IRC[X] can easily adopt (not a question of if) when the MSN ocx does become redundant.