Agree. The phrase "from the creator of XMPP" never fails to make me cringe, for a variety of reasons. It's a tribute to the simplicity of IRC that you can writ

Agree. The phrase "from the creator of XMPP" never fails to make me cringe, for a variety of reasons. It's a tribute to the simplicity of IRC that you can write a channel logging bot in like 20 lines of shell (https://github.com/acg/logbot https://github.com/acg/logbot).