On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:08:25PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ma, 2004-04-05 kello 15:28, Steve Greenland kirjoitti: > > On 04-Apr-04, 03:56 (CDT), Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > > Who uses identd anyway? :-) > > > > IRC users. A lot of IRC daemons expect the client to support identd > > services, even though it's completely useless. > > Hm. I have the impression that this is information is out of date, > though I'm certainly not an expert on it. I do know, however, that I've > used IRC since 1997, almost completely on machines without identd, and > that I don't recall having any problems due to it. > > Does anyone have a (recentish) example of where identd would be required > for IRC? > Sure. As for IRCNet, the german IRCNet servers make it a requirement for users by the german Internet Service Provider T-Online to have an identd installed. You will just receive a friendly message telling you that you need to install identd if you try to connect via T-Online to IRCNet without one. > -- > http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/ > > -- .''`. Martin Loschwitz Debian GNU/Linux developer : :' : madkiss@madkiss.org madkiss@debian.org `. `'` http://www.madkiss.org/ people.debian.org/~madkiss/ `- Use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0! See http://www.debian.org/
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