[IRCServices] auto /msg when connecting?

[Finny Merrill]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Russell Garrett wrote:

> Yes the RFC explicity forbids services /msging users. If your users don't
> read /msgs then that's their problem. I seem to remember a topic about
> this a few months back. It could certainly be done as a services patch,
> but it will definitely not be included in the services distribution (and
> I would usually code a patch, but I feel strongly about this so I'm not
> going to).

Well the restriction is on sending automatic responses to notices. Bots 
and
services CAN use msg, but for messages designed to be read by humans, 
NOTICE is best. Still,  this is never getting changed, and you shouldn't 
want
it to be either.

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