[IRCServices Coding] Guest nick

[Saturn]

Fair enough answer, and it makes sense..

As to Dylan who was so thoughfully rude in his reply, i grant you that MAYBE
longer numerics would be useful on a big network, but even DALnet only needs
5 digits... that's potentially 100,000 Guest nicks at once...  I really
doubt there are any networks anywhere with the need for a 10-digit nick
(10,000,000,000 possible GUEST nicks)... I can understand from a
"randomized" point of view, so that it decreases the possibility of
collision, and once explained that way (thank you Andrew) it makes sense
there.  Dylan, I think most people would agree that the onyl stupid question
is the one that goes un-asked, and that it is simple rudeness that answers a
perfectly valid question with rudeness and sniping, calling it "stupid."
Go climb back under your rock.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices Coding] Guest nick


>      Guest nicks were changed during the 5.0 alpha stage to start from a
> random number; this was done to avoid cases where malicious users would
> take the next sequential Guest nick and collide off the nickchanged user
> (and themselves escape Services' notice in the process).  The number is
> also re-randomized when such an attempted collision is found.
>
>      In any case, Guest nicks are not intended for actual use in chatting;
> they are only a placeholder for people who try to use registered nicks and
> haven't yet chosen a new one.  (If you, as an oper, need to /msg someone
> with such a nick to resolve a problem or such, well, live with it--/query
> can be quite helpful here.)
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
>
> >My opers were commenting on how long the numeric is following "Guest"
when a
> >user is guested... in the old days it was just 5 digits, but i note it's
a
> >lot more than that now.. makes it tricky to pm people with all them
numbers
> >too.
> >
> >Any chance of one or both of two possible things happening?
> >
> >1. Can the numeric length be made an option in the conf?  (like
> >GuestNumericLength  5  to make it 5 digits or something)
> >2. Can someone tell me where I might find this in the source code to
change
> >it myself?
> >
> >Obviously option 1 would be handier, but I'll settle for option 2... Of
> >course, I know it's kinda petty, and I'll understand also if nobody wants
to
> >bother with either solution hehe...
> >
> >Anyone know why it IS suddenly so many more digits now?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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