Well you get known going by your nickname and it's not worth the change.
I've been hanging on freenode before going to #squeak as sc0tty, I use 
yann for #smalltalk; but I kept sc0tty for the other servers, it's just 
so much easier.

The /whois isn't always a good bet, since some people don't change their 
info ( the too well known I'm too lame to read bitchx doc ...)

Yann aka sc0tty ;)

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Am 16.10.2006 um 22:03 schrieb Matthew Fulmer:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:19:25PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> Now if I could convince the  folks in IRC to at least use
>>> nicks resembling real names ... but I  guess that's futile.
>>
>> You can usually summon someone's real name by doing a /whois on
>> them.
> 
> I know, and I do, and some even have their real name set, but I still 
> can't remember the nicks, and I still am too lazy to do this for every 
> nick I don't recognize. Perhaps it's because I only drop by now and then.
> 
> Sure, I can understand people choosing funny nicks when role-playing in 
> MUDs (used to do that, too, as a student, with too much time), but in 
> IRC I assume they're not role-playing most of the time, at least on 
> #squeak.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 
>