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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/13 09:59, Paul Sutton wrote: > On 12/06/13 09:41, Henry Bremridge wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 03:42:27PM +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: >>> On 12 June 2013 12:37, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Since when is getting a user to enter his email address the >>> law? > > > Indeed I don't need to give any personal details if signing up for > IRC, in fact the only reason a irc server asks for an e-mail is as > part of the registration process for nickserv and If I understand > tat correctly this is so passwords can be e-mailed to users and > users can recover lost passwords. I may be wrong maybe an irc > admin on here can explain further. IIRC it was part of the protocol, from an early stage. But even then the server had to take what the client told it on trust. Hence ident lookups were brought in. The original "nickserv" being just a regular "bot" client anyway. The original, Finnish, authors of IRC were of the view that nicks were like CB "handles" and were not "ownable". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG4240ACgkQsoRLMhsZpFd1dACfU2Lm8GHFv8UhIvjdoSAdp8d3 C/sAn38LcF39mwSqfM82q+nNiJtBKyG4 =sQE8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq