[IRCServices] Another Feature Suggestion

[Guy Antony Halse]

On Fri 2002-05-31 (10:44), Russell Garrett wrote:
> >Nkill: Nickname Kill
> >example: /msg operserv nakill guest*
> >will kill everyone with the nick guest. This would be useful for
> floodbots that use the same nicks.
> 
> How many floodbots have you seen with similar nicks? Any decent
> self-respecting floodbot program selects random nicks.

I disagree with this.  A lot of the unwanted bots that I've seen have
patterns in their nicks.  I tend to Q-line the pattern as soon as I work out
what it is.  At the moment I have things like [HarD]*, *GuNBot, [ADLF]*,
al^jekr*, [AceBots]*, etc Q-lined in my ircd.conf.

The idea of being able to clean up with a regex or wildcard based kill is
somewhat appealing to me for this reason.

- Guy
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