xeroxed im sorry i seem so antagonizing today
this was not my intention, not in the least. so i aplogize to you and everyone else there that day.
there are tons of benefits to being able to examine an ip address.
u can determine what programs are listening on there connection, see whether sum1's modem is in "promiscuous mode" making sure the poor bloke doesnt have a network sniffer listening to every password they type....seeing if the guys has trojans listening...
u can resolve connection problems via advice if sum1 is having trouble connecting, and most of all, i just like to see where people are from, without asking.
i have spent many years messing with irc, and the problems the past few days are very much like what ive had to deal with b4.
and for those of you who dont know, its still easy as hell to get an ip off an encrypted network just establish sum sort of direct conection, this can be through a IM session with your favorite client, or a direct file transfer, or whatevah
once u have an establsihed conection
go to your start menu and go to run then type netstat -50
its just much easier to be able to dns.
now if i was the only one who thought dns resolution was important, i highly doubt it would be a feature in Every popular irc client to date.
compare that to how many networks use encrypted ip's....what...two?
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