IRC Nicknames (was Re: [TriLUG] [Fwd: [Steering] Red Hat is Hiring])

[Kevin Otte]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:16:45PM -0400, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On 6/15/05, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not so much of an inside joke as I was asking Nivex to share because
> > he recently left Red Hat.

I left to pursue other possibilites.  There was no avenue to advance at RH
in my intended field.  I was also not directly affiliated with the group
that this job posting is in.  YMMV.

> And, in case you're scratching your head, this "Nivex" Matt keeps
> referring to is actually Kevin Otte.  Nivex is his irc nickname.
> Personally I think irc nicknames should stay in irc, but for
> some reason many people persist in using them on the 
> mailing list even though they confuse people.

I answer to Nivex simply because my best friend is also named Kevin. It got
really confusing at LAN parties, and the nicks just stuck.  I can think of
many other instances of such first name hash collisions :)  Perhaps that's
why T'ealc on Stargate always addresses humans by their full name.

Now that I'm done geeking out...

-- 
Kevin Otte, N8VNR
nivex at nivex.net
http://www.nivex.net/

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