[IRCServices] Thoughts on 433 numeric?

[Andrew Church]

>>About the only problem I've found with it is if I have kill set to quick
>>and access the nick from a user at host not in the access list, services
>>sends the numeric as soon as I connect... not a big problem, unless the
>>IRC client is one that changes nicks automatically when it receives that
>>numeric. :)
>
>     Do you think, say, 10 seconds before the kill/SVSNICK would be long
>enough?  Otherwise I don't see a way to solve this without, say, creating
>an all-new numeric or some such...

     To follow up on this--what would people think of taking a currently
unused numeric, say 430, and using it for "nick registered/forbidden"?
That way we get the advantage of keeping bots RFC-compliant without the
problems of people getting confused by "nick in use" messages.

>>On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Andrew Church wrote:
>>
>>>      Out of curiosity, has anyone experienced any trouble with the new
>>> option to send a nickname-in-use (433) numeric with nick warnings?  I've
>>> already had one report privately of it causing problems, in terms of people
>>> complaining of being told their nick is in use when in fact it isn't.
>>> (Note that this feature can be turned off at compile time by adding
>>> -DDONT_SEND_433 in the Makefile.)
>>> 
>>>   --Andrew Church
>>>     achurch at achurch.org
>>>     http://achurch.org/
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