On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Ricardo Ferreira aka Storm wrote:

Also, something i dont like in UNIX clients is that they dont let me specify the user part of my ident. As i im root im always banned from the linux channels and some servers. It really should be configurable.

You shouldn't be running an irc client as root anyway. In fact, you shouldn't be doing anything that doesn't absolutely have to be done as root, as root. My understanding is that the reason people running as root were banned from a lot of the Linux channel was to keep the 'idiot level' down. (I'm not implying that you are one, just explaining why it was done) Simon Karpen karpes@rpi.edu slk@acm.rpi.edu "Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e