On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 Jun 2015, at 15:28, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[email protected]> wrote: >> Semi-anonymous rooms are like IRC channels. Draw your own conclusions for >> whether that's good or bad. > > I don’t think that’s true, is it? Having or not having @ in a particular > channel doesn’t affect your ability to whois a user on IRC to the best of my > knowledge.
It's true in the sense that a nick in IRC (or a semi-anonymous MUC) is effectively an ephemeral identity. Eg. if you're talking to someone on IRC and they part and then join again, you can't be sure it's actually the same user (unless they've registered the nick; let's ignore the fact that you can probably whois and snag their IP address... maybe it's dynamic and it changes between your conversations). However, once you throw JIDs into the mix it doesn't matter if the nick is ephemeral, you can always see that the JID is the same, meaning that whomever you're speaking with at least has access to the same account. —Sam -- Sam Whited pub 4096R/54083AE104EA7AD3 https://blog.samwhited.com
