[IRCServices] Bouncy modes??

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Thu Feb 1 10:12:06 PST 2001


>>      Unfortunately, the detection sometimes goes off when in reality
>> nothing bad is happening.  I'm working on a better way of detecting the
>> problem, but for now, clearing out the channel (getting everyone to
>> leave so the channel disappears) will make Services forget about the
>> problem and set modes on that channel again.
>
>uhhh You do realize that this might not be possible on high profile channels...
>Oh sure, you can do it and all people will hear are that it was necessary, but
>it does make things unpleasant. Couldn't this be made simpler? I refer to
>making services forget the problem.
>Oh and btw, services still sets modes on the channel like o and v and b,
>it just doesn't set the channel only modes like m and i. It doesn't unset them
>either. Could this be the reason that mlock sometimes fails?

     Possibly.  I've added a NoBouncyModes option to the config file for
4.5pre1 that will disable this check.

  --Andrew Church
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