From: Matthew Cable <mcable@Emerald.tufts.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 06:34:53 PDT
To: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Subject: Re: Internet Relay Chat
In-Reply-To: <gate.5sycLc1w165w@dxm.ernet.in>
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On Mon, 25 Apr 1994 rishab@dxm.ernet.in wrote:

> 
> I've noticed some discussions of IRC (Internet Relay Chat), both as a possible
> model for CP interactions, as well as a location for implementations of 
> BlackNet (in #wares, etc.)
> 
> Note that IRC, unlike MUDS, has been designed to ensure 'true-names'. While
> you do use nicknames, anyone can find out the machine name and user ID you are
> logged in from, with a /whois. Anytime you join or leave a channel, your full
> machine name and user ID is displayed to everyone, along with your nick. This
> is different from any (possibly pseudonymous) e-mail address you register for
> incoming mail.

Fraid not....it's a trivial matter to fake the username, and if yer a 
smart cookie, faking the hostname is just as easy.

> 
> In #wares, people typically trade names of unauthorised FSP sites (such as the
> one in the LaMacchia case), which normally remain active for less than a few 
> weeks. Though entry to IRC channels can be by invitation only, everyone knows
> everyone else's real (in the sense of machine and ID) identity.

actually....the people on #warez (not -s, -z) just sit around and discuss 
how eLEeT!@#!@$! they are, then kick everyone off, hardly a revolutionary 
movement.


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