On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Yaroslav <yari...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/1/12 John Floren <j...@jfloren.net>: >> but I missed the simplicity and >> convenience of having just one nickname on IRC at all times > > why not to use their nickserv extentions for this purpose, > and a startup script to deal with connection and authentication to > select servers and channels? >
The problem is that I typically have an IRC client running on my desktop, and on my laptop in the living room, and sometimes on my phone, and maybe open up a web client if I need to get on a technical channel at work. This beats having john, john|laptop, john|phone, john|work. Plus, when I'm bored on the road or whatever, this allows me to open up my Android IRC client, connect, and get the last hour's backlog so I know what's going on. Nickserv prevents other people from stealing your nickname. An IRC bouncer allows you to maintain one continual presence online; I've set up Miau to authenticate with Nickserv at startup. John
