Err, these groups are perfectly legitimate groups. I really don't see what right you have to laugh at things you clearly know very little/nothing about, nor do I see why you have the right to mock something that is not harming you in any way (YES, you were mocking them.)
IRC Unity is infact a group which has attracted attention from several head admins of the largest IRC networks there are (Including QuakeNet and DALnet) and are supported by thousands of people. Over 150 networks (big and small) have supported this - and yes, I have seen these network members myself. I'm really surprised you don't know about it actually.
The Fizzer Task Force is a group produced by IRC Unity to deal with the recent Fizzer worm threat which has been irritating so many networks. It's been extremely successful in doing so, and has attracted attention from several world-wide companies such as Symantec and McAfee.
As for IFIRC, it's just a website project to be a center of information for all IRCers - whether you want to see news, find IRC networks or see other IRC clients. It's harmless, it's fun and it's doing a perfectly good thing for the 'IRC Community' as it were.
Once again, to reiterate, I don't see what right you have to laugh at something - I'm sure plenty of people laugh at Unreal IRCd, but you don't see *ME* laughing at its high CPU usage, vanity features and instability (in comparison to Bahamut anyway), do you? *G*
Ta Ta.
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