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From: alex at bofh.net.pl (Janusz A. Urbanowicz)
Subject: Why is IRC still around?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:40:26PM -0500, Danny wrote:

> 5) The anonymity of the whole thing helps to foster all the illegal
> and malicious activity that occurs?

You answered yourself. Because such mostly unregulated, seminanonymous
medium is needed. You have problem with unpatched machines? Patch them,
then and do not waste time whining.

And what would we do without bash.org?

Alex
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