[maemo-community] #maemo IRC cloaks

[From: Andrea Grandi]

Hi,

2009/10/28 Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/10/28 Ryan Abel <rabelg5 at gmail.com>:
>> OK, Freenode couldn't do maemo.org without another group contact form
>> being filed so we've gone with /Maemo/community/ instead of /maemo.org/.
>>
>> The staff and council cloaks have been handed (congratulations to
>> Stskeeps ;)), but we'll have to discuss how we want to handle the
>> contributor cloaks. The list of maemo.org members with > 500 karma
>> looks like this:
>>
>> achipa
>> andy80
>
> I'm very pleased to be in this list, and I've a question (please don't
> kill me :D ):
>
> ehm... what is a "cloak" and what is used for? I'm on IRC since 1997
> more or less, but I used other networks and so I've never used this
> funcionality. Could you please explain me better? Maybe other people
> could be interested too :)

I've just found this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks
it looks nice :)

+1 for me to have a cloak!

Thanks :)

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