[IRCServices] Leetle bug in Services I think (fwd)

[Andrew Church]

>On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, shadow wrote:
>>      This should have been fixed in 4.4.9, but I've changed the algorithm
>> for 4.5.0 to a simple counter, which should ensure uniqueness.  Hopefully
>> I can get a beta of 4.5 out before too long, but for the meantime I
>> suggest not using the guest-nick feature.
>
>This counter makes it easy for somebody to guess the next nick simply by
>looking at nick changes..

     I don't see why that's a problem when you can prevent people from
using said nicks with Q:lines (and if you don't that's your own fault).

  --Andrew Church
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