[IRCServices] Raw

Russell Garrett rg at tcslon.com
Mon Jan 20 21:18:00 PST 2003


Congratulations on being the first person to suggest a decent legitimate use
of raw to me :). This wouldn't be very tricky to add an operserv command for
though - I'm sure I've seen it on other services. So consider this a feature
request :).

Russ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net
> [mailto:ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net]On Behalf Of Ekim Engin
> Sent: 20 January 2003 19:11
> To: ircservices at ircservices.za.net
> Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Raw
>
>
> 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
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