Subj : Re: Password setting for Irc Client accessing a private irc server To : All From : nelgin Date : Wed Jul 17 2024 12:03 pm On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:48:28 -0700 "Nightfox" (VERT/DIGDIST) wrote: > Re: Re: Password setting for Irc Client accessing a private irc > server By: nelgin to All on Tue Jul 16 2024 09:27 pm > > ne> How are people going to get on the IRC server, unless you only > ne> want it open to BBS users and you can do that with I:line > ne> restrictions anyway, otherwise you have to make a password for > ne> every single user who joins? Or you have to give out a common > ne> password? Doesn't make sense. > > I seem to recall seeing one or two IRC servers with passwords in my > time using IRC. And yes, one of the use cases is only having it be > open to a certain group of users. > > Nightfox > > --- > ■ Synchronet ■ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com Must have been some odd, off the radar IRC network then. EFnet, ircnet, undernet, DALnet never had password protected servers. -- End Of The Line BBS - Plano, TX telnet endofthelinebbs.com 23 --- ￭ Synchronet ￭ End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705) .