> Is this affecting only bans that attempt to ban nicks containing the > character \, or are nicks containing \ being totally able to bypass all > bans? > > In the latter case, then yes there would be an urgent problem to deal with. > However, if it's only a matter of not being able to specifically ban nicks > containing that character, then it's not really a big deal, although it > definitely should be fixed eventually. If you really need to ban someone > with a \ in their nick, just ban them based on something different from > their nickname, such as their hostname or user@host ...
or ban the upper(?) case charactor "|" :) -- You're dead, Jim. -- McCoy, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7