[IRCServices Coding] More bugs and suggestions for Version 5.0
Andrew Church
achurch at achurch.org
Fri Feb 15 23:53:44 PST 2002
>> I see your point, and yes, an ID alias would be nice, but my personal
>> feeling is that aliases are not a good thing (tm) :). If you
>> really want the
>> ID alias - make a wrapper for the IDENTIFY function.
>
>As I said in my post, I already have my own version of ID in each version
>of services we use. I agree that aliases in general are not a good thing as
>I said previously, I just thought this one was something that might be
>useful to have in the main distribution. After all, there is already
>SIDENTIFY which is, to all intents and purposes, an alias for IDENTIFY.
The only reason it's there is because some ircd (Bahamut?) has it
hard-coded in. If you want something shorter, write an alias in your client.
--Andrew Church
achurch at achurch.org
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