[IRCServices Coding] Guest nick

[Colin Thorpe(SCF)]

Aye men to that.. I Hate all these newb Script kiddies and in experianced
people who think they are so much better than everyone else so they can
sewear, be abusive and an all round pain in the arse..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Saturn" <saturn at jetirc.net>
To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices Coding] Guest nick


> 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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