[IRCServices Coding] Guest nick

[Mortalica]

On Wed 2002-10-02 (13:43), Dylan v.d Merwe wrote:
> *blink*
> 
> I apologize, sent the message in the early hours of the morning.
> 
> Dylan.
 
Why does _everyone_ blame their stupid comments and such on sleepiness? It's
really getting old now. Don't try to impress people with oh-so-clever comments
- just keep quiet unless you have something intelligent to say.

And Colin Thorpe(SCF) <ghozer at scfclan.com> wrote:

> 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..

Amen to that too!

And no, this isn't suppose to be a flame mail, even if it looks like it :-)



> ----- 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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