[development] IRC cloaks

[Peter Wolanin]

This page has similar instructions for registering/setting up a nick
that I found a little more clear:

http://blog.freenode.net/?p=30

-Peter

On 8/1/07, Brandon Bergren <bdragon at mailsnare.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>
> > On 8/1/07, Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Cloak list is being compiled at http://groups.drupal.org/node/5403
> >>
> >> Please note that I can not really check whether you have two nicks linked
> >> and the master has an email address. If you don't and your cloak gets denied
> >> by freenode staff then your cloak might be delayed quite a bit.
> >>
> >
> > Karoly
> >
> > There was a list of nicks vs. user names on d.o.
> >
> > See http://drupal.org/node/137500
> >
> > Probably vanished after search was disabled, but the data is there
> > somewhere.
> >
> > Better than the wiki page on g.d.o?
> >
>
> No, because people have to set up their nicks as per
> http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup before they will be able to
> recieve a cloak, and there's no easy way to check whether this has
> happened for a given nick, so we're relying on people to add themselves to
> the list if they want a cloak.  This is just for the initial batch of
> cloaks, if you're not on the list, you can always get one later.
>
> As far as reasons to wear a cloak:
>
> A) It shows that you have an interest in Drupal.
> B) It gives people a way to find your profile on drupal.org easily.
> C) You can hide your hostname, which has some security and privacy
> benefits.
>
>
> --Brandon
>
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