[IRCServices] Thoughts on 433 numeric?

[Andrew Kempe]

I'm quite happy with this. I would suggest making this usage public
knowledge by mentioning it on the mailing lists used by the major ircd
development teams.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Thoughts on 433 numeric?


> >>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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