21 Oct
2009
21 Oct
'09
10:06 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Trevor Talbot <quension@mac.com> wrote:
Why is the ability to opt out of hostmasking in realtime considered so desirable that it is worth the violation of the host-immutability assumption and all of the associated ill effects?
To be perfectly blunt, users don't really care about standards and protocols. What they care about is hiding their host, and the amount of work necessary to accomplish that goal. Undernet and Quakenet gets away with registration based via redundant services.