On 2012-04-19, at 23:03, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:27:04PM +0200, Truls Becken wrote: >> >> So for the user they seem to have the same effect. >> Perhaps 2) is partly the reason they do 1), by the way. > > Let's not make the fantastically naive mistake of assuming this userbase > is sufficiently large to comprise a statistical universe, much less > begin throwing pompous shit about "the user" into this discussion.
I was thinking of IRC users in general. > You have absolutely no proof that such servers are "the most popular" > and no reason to claim shitty server-specific behavior is any reason to > start crapping all over things defined in an actual RFC. Granted, although there is a list somewhere of the 4-5 "most popular" networks. Anyway, thanks for clearing this up for those of us that did not fully understand the relation between the two kinds of authorisation. I conclude that I have no current need for PASS, but that's just because it is not required by any server I use at the moment. -Truls