Explain why relaying through this is a good idea!

[irker.git] / irkerd.xml

diff --git a/irkerd.xml b/irkerd.xml
index bfbce36d31e5cb591dcf4498417bec6fa006f5e6..0638a6e5d62438c9893cc00eae343cd9f9902a1e 100644 (file)
--- a/irkerd.xml
+++ b/irkerd.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ client intended to be used for shipping notification messages to IRC
 channels. The use case in mind when it was designed was broadcasting
 notifications from commit hooks in version-control systems.</para>
 
+<para>The main advantage of relaying through this daemon over
+individual scripted sends from applications is that it can maintain
+connection state for multiple channels, rather than producing obnoxious
+join/leave channel spam on every message.</para>
+
 <para><application>irkerd</application> is a socket server that
 listens on for UDP or TCP packets on port 6659 for textual request
 lines containing JSON objects and terminated by a newline. Each JSON