Re: [gnome-women] IRC and two nicknames

[Anna Zacchi <azzurroverde gmail com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com> wrote:

Hi Anna,

People manually change their nick when stepping away from the computer, so that other people who might want to talk to them know that they are not actually around. "afk" stands for "away from keyboard". People prefer not to sign off from IRC so that they can still see the log of what was said in various channels or who pinged them with a private message when they come back.

Does this answer your question?

Marina

Yes,

thanks.  So it is manual and the reason is to "log" what is going on in IRC :)

Anna

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anna Zacchi" <azzurroverde gmail com>
To: "meg ford" <meg387 gmail com>
Cc: gnome-women-list mail gnome org
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 2:52:25 PM
Subject: Re: [gnome-women] IRC and two nicknames


Hi Meg,
I was referring to you last example, when someone uses:
Anna-away or Anna-afk.
Also, I am using Empathy and I haven't seen any setting for when away (besides custom message).
I guess people may be using different applications ...




Thanks,
Anna


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:42 PM, meg ford < meg387 gmail com > wrote:


Hi Anna,

Can you give an example? Sometimes my name appears differently because my chat program crashes, and when I log back in and my old connection is still active. When that happens the program appends a number to the end of my nick. When I am logged into more than one IRC service (like irc.gimp.org and irc.gnome.org ) then the same thing happens. Sometimes people set their name to something slightly different when they are away (like Anna_away or Anna_afk).

Does that answer your question or were you thinking of something different?

Meg




On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Anna Zacchi < azzurroverde gmail com > wrote:




Hello all,
why some people have two nicknames in IRC?
One for when they are online, and one for when they are away from keyboards?
What's the purpose of the second?


Thanks,
Anna
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