[IRCServices] Guesting Nicks

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sat Jun 23 01:53:01 PDT 2001


     RTFF (Read The Fine FAQ), question D.2.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>I know Andy has probably thought of this and it probably "No use" doing or
>is inneficient,
>
>But how about using rand()%1000 For guested nicks, cause i get too many nick
>collisions when services come back by people using Guest nicks already on
>the  server, services come back, try to guest someone to Guest1 and boom,
>nick collision.  I was just wondering about using ANY random number, instead
>of incrementing it from Guest1, This may help stop Nick Collisions and The
>same people getting the same nicks by about 99.999% (Windows 2000 Uptime
>report (The 5 9's))  :-)
>
>
>Kevc978
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