At 06:28 18/10/2002, you wrote: >Hi again, Hi,
>Users are allowed to type /admin to receive contact info for the server they are on. >This doesn't help a user or ISP trying to contact a server admin that has banned >their ISP via a K/G line. It's not possible to get on another server and use /admin >to get contact info for the server they are banned from. For this reason alone, it's >a good idea to allow someone to type /admin <server name> to find out the contact >info for the server that has a ban set on them. >Since the admin info is available anyway, there's no harm in allowing a remote /admin >look up. >stoney` the "harm" of that actually is that it would allow anyone to "know" if a given server is linked or splitted from the network .. this is why this information is (or should) be available in another location, possibly a webpage like http://www.undernet.org/servers.php, maybe the "/admin" output of any server should end up with such a link for lost people ;) *cheers* >Py Fivestones >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- nighty.
