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Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:41AM (#9119761)
This is also one of the (original) benefits of 4chan. It's not merely anonymous, but it is also ephemeral.

However, these days there are IRC loggers and 4chan archivers.

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Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by vertex-four on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:48AM (#9119810)
There's only IRC loggers that you can see, though - if you know (practically) everyone in a channel at a given point in time, you're reasonably safe - not 100%, but reasonably. Which is about good enough for most things.
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Re:IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen by TeMPOraL on Friday February 27, 2015 @01:12PM (#9120321)
You guys know that probably every third person on Freenode has his or her own IRC bot on the channel? ;). Ok, I'm exaggerating, but I'm yet to see a popular channel that isn't logged either publicly or privately.
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