[IRCServices Coding] Guest nick

[Dylan v.d Merwe]

*blink*

I apologize, sent the message in the early hours of the morning.

Dylan.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Saturn" <saturn at jetirc.net>
To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:04 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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