[IRCServices] Raw

Ekim Engin ekim at hadiko.de
Mon Jan 20 21:12:00 PST 2003


On Monday 20 January 2003 20:04, Russell Garrett wrote:
> Reasons NOT to use raw:
>
> - You can crash the services hub or even the whole network with one
> command. - Little to no accountability.
> - Some (most?) raw commands have repurcussions that you need a
> working knowledge of ircd/services internals to understand.
>
> And the #1 reason is:
> - It's not actually useful (yay, you can svsnick people... why do you
> need to? you can add services pseudo-clients to channels... and
> increase services link traffic.)! I've yet to see a decent reason to
> use it.
>
> Russ
>
Reason to use Raw:

it IS the only way of using the SVSNOOP command

Greets Ekim