[IRCServices] Access lists - masks?

[Bryan Clark]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:38:21 -0000, Jamie Smithson said:

> Is there any chance for the support of masks in future versions, for
>  instance being able to AOP
>  test!hmm@*.btconnect.com ?

That's something I, for one, would consider a Very Bad Thing, for two
reasons:

First, it's insecure. I know Andrew went on earlier about not wanting to
have services try to compensate for every bad thing a channel admin might
do, but I wouldn't even consider putting that in. Honestly, it's a wonder
dal still allows it. :P Of course, if the nick is registered, that's a
different story .... but then, if the nick is registered, just add that
to the list and save yourself the trouble. ;)

Second ....... well, a bit of history first. This actually *was* in
Services way back in the 2.x versions, but was taken out. The reason:
It's far faster to match a literal string (even case-insensitively) than
it is to do a wildcard match, especially on long access lists