The official ezine of the DALnet IRC Network August/Sept, 2002 Issue.

Letter from the Editor DALnet People - User Interview - Freddie_mercury - IRCop Interview - Raditz - DALneter of the Month - Music to IRC To The Moving Pen Amaranthine - Poem Escape - Poem Moon - Poem Sea - Poem Silence - Poem Water - Poem Fun Stuff - Miss_Star's Astrology - Family Unfortunates - Doh! - Squawks - The Confessional In Real Life - Tea For Anyone? - What If? - The Perfect Body – Thinness and Slim Techie's Corner - IRC's Birthday - Looking into Lindows - Adding SSL to ircd - Securing NON-SSL aware Network Daemons using OpenSSL and Stunnel Past Issues - Past Issues

The Confessional Oh dear, feeling a little guilty are you? Harbouring some guilty little secret which you couldn't possibly tell a living soul? Well...you've come to the right place! Unload all your dark little confessions here and let your fellow DALnet chatters absolve you, or damn you. So how does this work? Well, you the guilt-ridden tortured party simply sends in your dark secret and we, your road to salvation, print it in a future issue. Oh, but it doesn't stop there, oh no. Once printed, everyone gets to vote on whether you are absolved or damned. If you get absolved, you'll feel the weight of guilt lift off your shoulders, but if you are voted guilty you will have to spend the next month, whenever you are online, as the sole Aop in #Sin-Bin where your guilt will be on display to all who pass by. I Confess... Nickname: Curve The Confession: Roughly 10 years ago I purchased my very first printer - back in those days, this was a pretty big event as they were fairly unwieldy pieces of equipment and pretty expensive. So, my new printer arrived and I was faced with a whole world of possibilities. What to print...what to print...what to print... The upshot to my deliberations was that I decided only a big mailshot would really test my new printer's robustness and, after some thought, I decided what that mailshot would be. A few nights later, a friend and I crept out under cover of darkness and delivered my mailshot to every house in the leafy, quiet of Welham Road. The next morning the residents of this little-known London street woke up to a letter which appeared to come from the local council. This letter informed them that, in commemoration of the recently murdered Botswanian freedom fighter, Welham Road would shortly be changed to Vincent Nyonga Ofosu-Ama Obe Street. I can only shudder in shame at the thought of all those confused white middle-class residents trying to pronounce their new street name. I can only writhe in mortification at the thought of all those poor workers of Wandsworth Council who had to deal with the distraught communications asking how Vincent Nyonga Ofosu-Ama Obe Street would ever fit on a standard envelope. Should Curve be forgiven her sin, or cast into the #sin-bin for public humiliation? You decide - vote now! Forgiven Put in the Sin Bin! Currently 0 of you think that Curve should be put in the sin bin and 0 of you think she should be forgiven. SUBMIT your confession ©compiled by curve 2002