[IRCServices] removed glines

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Wed Dec 5 01:07:00 PST 2001


>>      You can't use /gline with Services.  Use OperServ AKILL instead.
>> Looks like we have a new FAQ candidate...
>
>It would be better, imo, if services set glines had an extra signature 
>or tag to them, perhaps in the reason for the ban, and services only 
>removed those glines with those tags, when they expire, and left those 
>without (oper set glines) alone.

     This misses part of the point of cancelling G:lines, in that it
gets around Services' privilege system (i.e.: if any oper can use
/gline, then it's equivalent to them being able to use /os akill).
Plus I just don't like the idea of having two systems to do the same
thing.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/