[IRCServices] Re: [Imran Ali Rashid - IRCServices] Suggestion

[Andy Smith]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:44:51 +0200, Partizanu <silvius at expres.ro> wrote:

>One month ago I was asking about a SENDPASS command in NickServ.
>Some people from the list replyed that it is not possible to send the password
>as long as the encryption is not reversible.
>But Lonewolf pointed out that would be nice to make services reset the
>password (/*to some rand chars*/) and send it to user.

Makes sense.

>But this is just a half of the problem. The other half is that a
>password-thief will change the email address as soon as he has the password
>for a nick...so any new passwords will be sent to a wrong address.

You can't do anything to help people who have shared their password.  And I
do not believe you should waste time trying.

You can however help people who have simply forgotten their password.

-- 
Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net>