[IRCServices Coding] rfc violation ?

[Thomas J. Stensås]

On Saturday 23 February 2002 22:31, you wrote:
> -NickServ- nick, type /IDENTIFY password.  Otherwise,
>
> Services are using a NOTICE to notify the user that he needs to identify
> himself. Is this correct? RFC says that no auto-reply should be send when a
> notice is received, but this is not possible in case of a bot or an
> auto-identify script, since the notification is send using a NOTICE and not
> a PRIVMSG. :)

There is no violation. The notice is not sent as a reply to anything other 
than a user using a registered nickname. 

If the client chooses to violate the RFC by automatically respond to the 
notices sent by services, thats the clients problem.
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Yours Sincerely

Thomas Juberg Stensås

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