Re: bug#50908: [PATCH] erc-user-mode: Set "+i" by default

[Amin Bandali]

Emanuel Berg via General discussion about ERC writes:

> Amin Bandali wrote:
>
>>> What do you think of this ERC patch to enable the "+i" user
>>> flag by default. This hides a user from global /who and
>>> /names, thus providing (very marginally) better privacy and
>>> protection from spam bots and similarly abusive behaviour.
>>
>> ENOPATCH :)
>
> Okay, that refers to ... ?

A made up name, play on the conventional E prefix for error codes.
ENOPATCH == error no patch; i.e. Stefan forgot to attach the patch.

>> This sounds like a good thing to do.
>> Other folks reading emacs-erc@
>
> Okay again, I've never seen that notation either, but I get
> it, this time. I don't know if I like it tho, it looks too ...
> modern. And referring to "electronic mail", that's just weird.
>
> At our side, of course, we call it gmane.emacs.erc.general and
> nothing else :)

Oh well.  I like just `@' instead of writing out the entire domain
name, and as somewhat of a dual to IRC's `#' for channel names.

>> what do you think?
>
> TBH, I never had a any problem with spam, be it by mail or on
> IRC, so I'm indifferent to this suggestion, but I wonder
> another thing, namely where do you set this?
>
> It could be interesting to see what user flags there are and
> even more so which ones are enabled right now ...

As Stefan mentioned, in ERC that would be `erc-user-mode'.
These can be network-specific, and you should look up the docs for
your network of choice.  For instance, for Libera.Chat, see:
https://libera.chat/guides/usermodes

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