How can I change my email address as it appears in the /whois?
You can change your username if your client is running on your own machine. Somewhere in your setup, you’ll have an item called “identd”. Find it (mIRC will have it somewhere under File ->Options) and change it to something else. On Unix hosts with no identd, some clients allow it to be set – others, including ircII, do not. If you’re on a Unix machine which is not yours and has an identd running, tough, live with it. What’s wrong with your real userid anyway? To fake your hostname, hack your local domain name server and start looking for a new provider since your account won’t last long if you do it, even if you don’t spend the rest of your natural life on probation. Actually, unless you’re running the client on a machine which also functions as a mail host, the address in your whois info isn’t a valid email address anyway.
