[IRCServices Coding] rfc violation ?

[Finny Merrill]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Thomas J. Stensås wrote:

> 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.
It's not violating the RFC dammit!
The RFC says "SHOULD not!" not "SHALL NOT!"
> --
> Yours Sincerely
> 
> Thomas Juberg Stensås
> 
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