Yah I proposed to the other Gnutella client developers to use IRC to implement chat and use it to discover hosts on the network faster.

They werent too thrilled, they'd rather write their own server software for chat and discovery, which means it will never happen. Fustrating I give themaccess to a pretty good idea and a foundation that is already laid, since there are always clients in #gnutella/cache.

Fustrating, but hey, if your using gnucleus, you have one more advantage over everyone else.