You should check out Hordes of the Underdark, the second NWN expansion. Great game with a great story, and a very impressive ending (well, OK, slightly less impressive after finishing it several different ways and noting that a good bit does stay the same...). It does mention your love interest if you play your cards right in the final moments...
Hostmask mirroring leads to endless problems in an IRC environment. How do you tell one person from another? Force nick registration? Nobody wants to sign up just to use IRC, that's one of the best things keeping it separate from instant messaging. Really it's much easier the way it is, with opers mostly hiding their real hosts not so they're not DoS'd, but so that it's at least more difficult to find/hack them and gain control over their server.
Nickserv/Chanserv don't help. DALnet/Undernet have services, they get hit. Not as much or nearly as hard as EFNet, but they do. Also, services have been known to be hacked(not that EFNet hasn't, but at least there isn't a service in place that makes it a 1 step process to 0w|\| every single channel)
Invisible hubs might sound nice in theory, and in fact were at least at one point scheduled for the next version of the EFnet ircd. However, this alone won't do a fucking thing. Because only a few servers have the balls to let many clients on anymore(irc.east.gblx.net, irc.ins.net.uk), taking down just those two servers takes out something like 1/2 of all EFNet users. Maybe you can't take channels so easily(like you can now?) but it'll still fuck with everyone trying to chat, and make the servers question why the hell they bother(which I don't understand myself. I have a friend who's an EFNet server admin, and I still don't get why.)
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You should check out Hordes of the Underdark, the second NWN expansion. Great game with a great story, and a very impressive ending (well, OK, slightly less impressive after finishing it several different ways and noting that a good bit does stay the same...). It does mention your love interest if you play your cards right in the final moments...
That's really not related. DCC is initiated client to client via msg's, they could still easily trade real IPs.
Gee, it's just so simple isn't it?
Hostmask mirroring leads to endless problems in an IRC environment. How do you tell one person from another? Force nick registration? Nobody wants to sign up just to use IRC, that's one of the best things keeping it separate from instant messaging. Really it's much easier the way it is, with opers mostly hiding their real hosts not so they're not DoS'd, but so that it's at least more difficult to find/hack them and gain control over their server.
Nickserv/Chanserv don't help. DALnet/Undernet have services, they get hit. Not as much or nearly as hard as EFNet, but they do. Also, services have been known to be hacked(not that EFNet hasn't, but at least there isn't a service in place that makes it a 1 step process to 0w|\| every single channel)
Invisible hubs might sound nice in theory, and in fact were at least at one point scheduled for the next version of the EFnet ircd. However, this alone won't do a fucking thing. Because only a few servers have the balls to let many clients on anymore(irc.east.gblx.net, irc.ins.net.uk), taking down just those two servers takes out something like 1/2 of all EFNet users. Maybe you can't take channels so easily(like you can now?) but it'll still fuck with everyone trying to chat, and make the servers question why the hell they bother(which I don't understand myself. I have a friend who's an EFNet server admin, and I still don't get why.)