I am thankful that you guys care about the emotional aspects of my situation and that you make good points regarding an alternative to IRC. But I am surprised that breaking privacy is obviously cool for so many people, that nobody cares too much. I am using OpenProjects.Net / Freenode.Net since about 5 years. And Google Mail was topic on all kinds of channels so often that I lost interest in it long ago, but ... ... the main points of many, many people was the EULA of Google Mail that could possibly be a risk for the privacy of users. The people talked about a company like Google. And their stock price would fall extremely if they did anything bad with the private data of its users. Here, we talk about Peer Directed Projects Center that is tax exempt and taking donations from big companies and popular open source projects. And for some unknown reason something like privacy does not count. And to many people it seems to be alright that Christel Dahlskjaer gives my phone number to one of my offenders. Tolerance is a very good thing if it comes to peaceful help for beginners. And tolerance is important if one person less is defaced and called a troll for expressing an uncomfortable opinion. But I think there should be no tolerance for breaking privacy of Freenode users. Patrick Frank