IRC with anonymous chat
reddit / irc

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NaviTrex · 2015-08-09 22:06

I'm looking to use IRC to make a conference paperless, but I need for
the main chatroom to be anonymous. Is there anyway for the messages to
be anonymous, while still having a user list for PMs on a web-based
client?

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Nicd · 2015-08-10 05:53

AFAIK there is no way to do that. Some IRCds support anonymous
channels, but there everyone is called "anonymous". You could possibly
have everyone list their nickname in some other way so people can PM
eachother.

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prawnsalad · 2015-08-10 08:50

Anonymous meaning that messages are not associated with a nick? Or
anonymous meaning that you just don't want hostnames shown?

While the first is not possible with IRC, hostnames can be masked by
the network itself if the admins have enabled it. There are a fair few
networks with hostname masking enabled if you take a look at the
larger ones.

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NaviTrex · 2015-08-10 14:35

I was wanting messages to not be associated with a nick.

Is there a bot that you might know of which would auto-post any PMs it
receives into a chatroom?

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MuffinMedic · 2015-08-11 19:02

A lot of bots have a "say" feature where admins can PM the bot and
tell the bot to speak something in a channel. You could probably set
up one of the bots and enable the "say" command for everyone.

IRC really isn't for this kind of messaging though. Your best bet
would be to have people use random nicks + setup default cloaking so
IPs are hidden from users.

What are you trying to accomplish? There are other ways to get
security/anonymity via IRC.