[IRCServices Coding] STATUS?

Trevor Talbot quension at softhome.net
Wed Nov 13 12:08:02 PST 2002


On Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002, at 11:08 US/Pacific, Finny Merrill wrote:

> Shouldn't the response to NS STATUS be sent as a privmsg rather than
> notice?
>
> If the status response was designed for bots, why use NOTICE, which 
> bots
> are supposed to ignore?

Automatons are not supposed to generate replies to notices.  There is
no restriction on whether they process notices or not.

-- Quension

RFC1459 (4.4.2), RFC2812 (3.3.2)