How to Tell an IRC Operator?
When a person is given IRC Operator privileges, it is written into the IRCd of a particular server. The IRCd is a program which coordinates everything that happens on DALnet with all the other servers. It has various other functions which are not important to this document. Because the IRC Operator privileges are written into the IRCD, it recognizes the IRC Operator when this Operator issues a special command. This is often called ‘opering up’. When an IRC Operator ‘opers up’, the IRCD recognizes the privileges this person has and adds a separate line to the IRC Operator’s /whois. This line is by itself and says, Heathcliff is an IRC Operator When you look at all the information for someone you think may be an IRC Operator, it would look something like this: Heathcliff is moi@pp326.sometimes.net * Wherever you go, there you are. Heathcliff using jade.va.us.dal.net Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega. Heathcliff has identified for this nick Heathcliff is an IRC Operator – Se
