On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Tim Rightnour wrote:

# The only argument I have for keeping identd, is that there are some
# internet facilities, like certain IRC servers, that refuse your
# connection if you don't have it.  It would be unfortunate to not
# provide it to users because we think it's a stupid idea.  Yes it's
# stupid, but some of our users might want to use IRC.

Indeed, quite a few of us *do* use IRC on a regular basis, if EFNet#netbsd
is any indication.

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