> Why not?  As I understand it, the max users field is useless anyway.

The max users field is used by ircu to perform a kind of modulus operation
on the user numeric.  The operation used is a bitwise operation that
requires that the max users field be 2^n-1.  If you don't do this, you can
have problems attempting to introduce more than one client.  I, for
instance, killed X on Undernet by introducing two extra clients through
the quote mechanism.  Because of the max users field being set to "101"
or something to that effect, ircu treated "AXAAC" as being the same user
as "AXAAA", and so I ended up colliding X off with the third client.

It is very, very important that the max users field be of the correct
form.
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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