freenode irc, tor, and sasl

[Ted Smith]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 01:15 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> http://blog.freenode.net/2010/01/connecting-to-freenode-using-tor-sasl/
> 
> It looks like the freenode irc channel is trying a new approach for
> handling its Tor users. (This is great, since for a long time it looked
> like they were planning to just let Tor users slowly starve to death.)
> 
> Has anybody played with it? What did you think?

It breaks the Tor IM Bundle, for starters. And it seems like the only
supported free client is irssi, which is a definite lose for usability.
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