[IRCServices Coding] Services 5.0 alpha 34 released

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Fri May 24 11:09:00 PDT 2002


>yOn Fri, 24 May 2002, Andrew Church wrote:
>
>> >Andrew Church wrote:
>> >> 2002/05/14	Services admins can now modify channel access lists without
>> >> 		    identifying for the channel.  Suggested by Panagiotis
>> >> 		    Kefalidis <gizm0 at mail.gr>
>> >
>> >There have been a number of discussions on the list in the past wrt this
>> >issue and it seems that people were against this as well as for it. Any
>> >chance of making this a config option rather than permanent behaviour?
>> 
>>      I don't see the need; if you don't trust people to not abuse it, don't
>> make them Services admins.
>>
>
>There's still a potential for using it accidentally (believe me). Why not 
>make
>an OVERRIDE command that identifies a services admin as channel founder, 
>and put it in a module?

     Because too much flexibility is a problem in and of itself.  I do see
the point about using the command accidentally, though, so I'll think about
some sort of workaround.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/