[IRCServices] Nickname access masks

[Andrew Church]

> Why NickServ will add to accesslist *@*.someISP.com instead of
>*@my_site.someISP.com ?

     This is based on the assumption (which may or may not be true anymore;
comments are welcome) that most users use dialup accounts and will have a
different hostname every time they connect to IRC.  If, for example, a user
connects from "dialup1.example.net" and registers a nickname, that's fine
for that one time, but next time they connect, their hostname might be
"dialup2.example.net", which wouldn't match the original hostname.

     One thing I've been considering lately for 5.0 is to just get rid of
access lists entirely, requiring password authentication to use the nick.
What does everyone think of this?

  --Andrew Church
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