SOCKS Proxy support in Irssi?

[email protected] Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:46:12 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.irssi.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I noticed IRSSI can be built with SOCKS support. What exactly does this
mean as there is no documentation on this. Also is it possible to use
IRSSI with a SOCKS proxy?

Thank you.