I love my own passworded servers. I can let certain people in and everyone else out. Yay! But how will my friends know the password if they're not on MSN or steam? I know! RTB IRC! I should put my server name as 'General Nick's Private Server (IRC for pass)', that way my friends will know to IRC me if they want the password to the server.
The above is a monologue to myself of the idea of passwording a server and letting only people I know have the password through IRC.
Now I've had about 8 different people that claim to be my friend and know me well asking me like crazy for the stupid password.
Only two people I knew actually asked me for it, though.
So why all of a sudden when I host a private server everyone is interested in my server?