lightly freshened for the '10s

.gitignore

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+*~
+#*#

LICENSE

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-pircd is Copyright (c) 1998-2003, Jay Kominek <[email protected]>
+pircd is Copyright (c) 1998-2003, Jay Kominek <[email protected]>
                                   and others
 
 Use, modification and distribution is allowed without limitation,

README

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    | |_| |_  ___   _ __  ___ _ _| | (_)_ _ __   __| |__ _ ___ _ __  ___ _ _  
    |  _| ' \/ -_) | '_ \/ -_) '_| | | | '_/ _| / _` / _` / -_) '  \/ _ \ ' \ 
     \__|_||_\___| | .__/\___|_| |_| |_|_| \__| \__,_\__,_\___|_|_|_\___/_||_|
-                  |_|                  http://pircd.sourceforge.net/
-                                    by jay kominek ([email protected])
-                                       julian squires ([email protected])
+                  |_|                  http://github.com/jkominek/pircd
+                                    by jay kominek ([email protected])
+                                       julian squires ([email protected])
                                        et al
 
  Yes.
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  You can breathe again.
  There. Very good.
 
+*** Pre-introduction
+
+ I thought I'd pull this onto github, from sourceforge, where it had
+lingered for more than a decade. I doubt I'll do anything with it
+(though I updated the email addresses in it), but now at least if
+anyone starts making modifications, the features of github will let
+others find them more easily.
+
+ Over the years a number of folks (certainly more than I ever expected
+when I first started working on it) wrote me to thank me. I'm glad it
+helped people. I hope it can continue to do so.
+
+ For what it's worth, I'm against pull requests. I'll be flattered
+that you're interested, but I almost certainly will not be able to deal
+with them in a timely fashion.
+
 *** Introduction
 
  pircd is an IRC daemon written in Perl. I wrote it after realizing that Perl
@@ -62,15 +78,5 @@ at this point.)
  * A computer
  * A port that you can bind to, preferably 6667
 
-*** About the author
-
- I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in May 2002 with
-a degree in Computer Science. Currently I work at the Laboratory for
-Atmospheric and Space Physics as a research assistant. I write Java
-stuff. :(
-
- An up to date list of people helping with the development of pircd can
-be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=671
-
-- Jay Kominek <[email protected]>
+- Jay Kominek <[email protected]>
   Hail Eris!

README.SSL

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   joining the channel who isn't connected via SSL. It doesn't do anything
   about parties already present on the channel, though.
 
-- Jay Kominek <[email protected]>
+- Jay Kominek <[email protected]>
   If all else fails, increase the amperage.

server.motd

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       _   _    _      _            pircd Beta Two
      | |_| |_ (_)___ (_)___  __ _  author, Jay Kominek
-     |  _| ' \| (_-< | (_-< / _` | [email protected]
+     |  _| ' \| (_-< | (_-< / _` | [email protected]
       \__|_||_|_/__/_|_/__/ \__,_| Hail Eris!
       _ __  ___ _ _| | (_)_ _ __   ___ ___ _ ___ _____ _ _ 
      | '_ \/ -_) '_| | | | '_/ _| (_-</ -_) '_\ V / -_) '_|
      | .__/\___|_| |_| |_|_| \__| /__/\___|_|  \_/\___|_|  
-     |_|   http://pircd.sf.net/
+     |_|   http://github.com/jkominek/pircd
 
       If you can't do it in Perl, you don't want to do it.