[IRCServices Coding] pseudo treatment..

[Craig McLure]

i see your point, maybe to would in that case to be benificial to have some sort of flag in the module, all the services defaults have that feature switched off, yet the option is there for modules that may require it.

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>Not ignoring the clients services itself is providing does ultimately
>mean that services shall be parsing its own write buffer.
>
>Resulting in that not only recognizing what the result of the RAW
>command might have done, but also recognizing that the Global has just
>sent a logon notice to user X, or that ChanServ greeted user Y with the
>entrymsg, or even that user Z has read the help for AKILL, etc.
>
>I tried to give examples of data that services would have to parse and
>throw away, since unimportant but which is the most biggest part of the
>IRC data services is generating.
>
>Can you imagine what kind of unnecessary slowdown this may generate on a
>13k user network?
>
>On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 06:18, Craig McLure wrote:
>> I understand that actions by pseudoclients are ignored by services by design.. however, how easy would it be to code a flag somewhere, or soely into a module that will allow services to treat the pseudo as it would a normal user.. this would open several possibilities for slightly more 'interactive' modules.
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