Hi, Anyone can find your username by typing /msg x verify nick. The new "feature" merely cuts out an additional step. Knowing a nick's username actually helps with security as a /whois can be spoofed but not a person's username. Knowing your friend's username, and being able to match your friend's nick with his username will leave no doubt that the nick you are talking to is really who you think they is. stoney` P.S. the verify command will also tell you if someone is an IRCop or cservice admin/helper
At 08:07 PM 4/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Kindly remove the new "feature" that displays one's username in a /whois >results. >This is an open invitation to attacks and an invasion of privacy. I >thought that >security was supposed to be INCREASED not thrown wide open. Please think >this one >over again. No op I know is for this. > >Nemo288 > >@#windows2000pro @#networking @#windowsxp @#windows98 @#millennium @#Puternutz > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Just say no to one word solutions. Py Fivestones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
