On 19 April 2012 22:21, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 08:41:14PM +0200, Truls Becken wrote: > > > > True, PASS is cleaner because of the delay necessary with the nickserv > > message. Key as argument sucks quite a bit, though. > > > > for those following along at home, PASS has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do > with nickserv or any of this other shit layered on top of IRC. PASS is > a CONNECTION-LEVEL password that allows you to CONNECT to the server. > while some systems embed a username inside the password, that is NOT > NECESSARILY TRUE and frequently isn't. > > PASS has nothing to do with nickserv. > nickserv has nothing to do with PASS. > > any server that uses data from the PASS string to do shit with nickserv > is doing that on its own. many irc servers have ONE PASS that is shared > among many users, who THEN identify to nickserv -- or don't use nickserv > at all, but still use PASS. > > sorry, I started this. thanks for clearing that up also, as mentioned on irc, irssi can set PASS
> Why is this not filtering into anyone's skull? > > -- *Ivan c00kiemon5ter V Kanakarakis* >:3
