On IRC, there is the ability to hide your hostname / ip-address with a cloak. KDE and Wikimedia [1] for example, provide cloaks. Konversation has the option to auto-join several channels. This auto-join is so fast, that the cloak is often not yet activated. This leads to logging messages in the joined channels that show your hostname /ip-address: [20:31] --> You have joined the channel #kde-devel (~user@host372.dsl.1un1.de). It would be good if Konversation would wait a small time with auto-joining / re-joining, if it knows that the user has a cloak. When the cloak has been set, the channels can be joined. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Cloaks
Please also see the reply in bug 310839 for a more concise explanation, in addition to the dupe ticket. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 132608 ***