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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- In-Reply-To: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:18:51 GMT
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:12:56 GMT
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- SW> == StarWatcher <StarWatcher@uiuc.edu>
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- SW> Is it my imagination, or are faked userid@host's becoming more
- SW> common on IRC. And, am I alone in finding them d*mned annoying?
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- No, and no, which is why some servers have a "no faked user@hosts"
- policy, and why the ident support was added to the server code in the
- first place...
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- ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
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- to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
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