From: Rick Langschultz
My reasoning behind logging IRC would be to provide a place where finding information about bugs, features, websites, etc on the channel. If someone wanted to look up more information on a particular subject they could simply click on the log and go to any particular spot on the wiki or the web to obtain more information. What if someone wasn't able to use IRC because they were at work, or blocked because of parental controls, etc? Providing a log would allow a person to find out what is happening. Just a thought.
When the reactos.com site was cracked in July, it left a script which contacted an IRC channel and got further instructions from there. That alone is enough for me to disallow any IRC connections from the box.
Ge van Geldorp.