[IRCServices] Feature: nickchange and guestnickprefix

[Craig McLure]

Andrew isnt refering to 'randomly generated nick registration', Andy is just stating that the nickname that services will change your nick to is 'randomly generated' what and is also saying, that if it were to generate a new nickname for a user based on its current nickname, it would have to check to see if that nickname is registered before changing it. (for example, Craig is taken, someone tries to use it, Services wants to change the nickname to Craig132123, it has to check to see if Craig132123 is already registered before changing the nickname. Otherwise, you may hit another already registered nick.). Nicknames with the guestprefix cannot be registered at all. Meaning that services doesnt have to perform registration checks on it before changing the nick.

There are other methods of preventing mass registration, including Registration delays, E-Mail authorisation, etc.

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>> >I think than this feature is already implement. I just ask to do it 
>> >more frexible.
>> 
>>      I agree, this is useless flexibility.  It also adds 
>> complications in that Services has to check whether the new 
>> randomly-generated nick is registered (GuestNickPrefix nicks 
>> are not allowed to be registered so they don't have this problem).
>
>Services prevent randomly-generated nick registration, that start with
>CuestNickPrefix and only that nicks, but they _doesn`t_ prevent
>registration for randomly-generated nicks (flood registration).
>Therefore any restrictions, than comes with GuestNickPrefix, are
>useless, isn`t it?
>
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