Updating mIRC's servers.ini file

As you know a rather up-to-date list with IRC networks for mIRC is available in the servers.ini file on our website. This list is carefully maintained to make sure a fresh list is available for new mIRC releases. To help with the maintnance of this list you're very welcome to provide fresh or improved information about your IRC network.

Your help is much appreciated, but there is something you should know... Most proposals and requests regarding the servers.ini state far too little information. Very often I have to guess about port numbers or the official one-word name(!) of networks. Researching this information on the web consumes a lot of my time. Time I'd rather spend on mIRC, the website or helping users...

That is why I will no longer proces server list proposals and requests that do not contain the detailed information I need. I hope you understand this? You better stick to the exact format specified below, since I will throw away under-specified, incomplete or terribly copy/pasted server lists! Please do not send attachments, keep your e-mails short and to the point.

All correct and complete requests are stored in a list with candidates. I will not confirm reception of your e-mail. If your request was correct and complete you can safely assume I recieved and processed it. Once each month I test all servers in the candidate list. Candidate networks that have a reasonable amount of users are copied to the servers.ini as soon as there is space in this list! Please remember we limit the size of the servers.ini file to about 32Kb.

Please appoint one person responsible for maintaining a good list of servers. If your network is in the list already please be very clear what changes you'd like. Send all updates, remarks, questions and hate mail to servers@mirc.com

I want you to start your contribution with a copy/paste ready specification of your server(s) in mIRC's servers.ini format, like this;

n001=Networkname: Random serverSERVER:servername:port(s)GROUP:groupname
n002=Networkname: Continent, State, CitySERVER:servername:port(s)GROUP:groupname
n003=Networkname: Continent, State, CitySERVER:servername:port(s)GROUP:groupname

In this list you should include detailed information on the location of the servers, their address and their port range. Specify them in order of importance with the random server on top. NOT in alphabetical order! At the moment I can not add more then the random server (round robbin) of new networks, but I'd like to have complete information for future reference! After this specification of your server(s) in mIRC's servers.ini format give me all other details of your IRC network.

== START HERE == send this to servers@mirc.com ================

      n000=
      n001=
      n002=

      network name (Network)		= 
      random server (irc.network.com)	= 
      port range (6660-6669,..)		= 
      network contact person (your name)	= 
      network contact email (your email)	= 
      network homepage (website)		= http://
      list of servers (page on website)	= http://
      average amount of users		= 
      average amount of servers		= 
      average amount of channels		= 
      

I process the candidate list with a script that connects to all candidate networks to check their user base and a few other things. For this to work correctly make sure your servers correctly report the name of your network in the welcome message (server numeric 1). Set it to the exact name stated in mIRC's servers list and vice versa. Like "Welcome to the ChetNet IRC Network Krejt". Make sure the "ChetNet" part exactly matches your network's name and it's domain name.

Best wishes, thanks for your help, succes with your network,

Tjerk Vonck.

Ps. I strictly stick to the right to reject your proposals for whatever reason. Be warned that incomplete proposals might go straight down the drain... I do not want to end up in disputes, especially not over the amount of servers a network has in the servers.ini, if any at all. And I fully admit some of my choices are the rather arbitrary result of my good temper ;-)