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- From: jont@cs.su.oz.au (Jonathon Earnshaw Tidswell)
- Subject: Re: Keep the flood.
- Reply-To: Ernie@IRC
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:45:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.234516.23261@cs.su.oz.au>
- References: <1992Nov9.212604.25539@ra.oc.com> <1992Nov10.115138.27036@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: Ernie@IRC
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- In article <1992Nov10.115138.27036@ugle.unit.no> gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) wrote:
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- | Try this, mr Herman
- |
- | /on -msg * msg nickserv@service.de help
- |
- | and then
- |
- | /msg nickserv@service.de help
- |
- | Now watch the flood. Does this mean that nickserv should be removed?
- Um if you understood the protocol you would know this is YOUR fault.
- Yes YOUR fault, since it is your client reponding with a message to a message.
- Actually this should do nothing since you should never get a privmsg from
- nickserv.
- |
- | Now try this:
- |
- | /on -list * list
- |
- | and then
- |
- | /list
-
- I like this, its fun :-)
-
- | Now have some fun for yourself, trying to figure out why the hell IRC has
- | been so badly programmed.
- Bad programming ? Support the claim.
- Badly abused ? Yes !
- Badly designed with repect to the consequences ? Yes.
-
- Ernie
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