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
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Must have been some odd, off the radar IRC network then. EFnet, ircnet,
undernet, DALnet never had password protected servers.
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