On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 16:07, Chip Norkus wrote:
> Operwalls are delineated only by a prefix in the WALLOPS message (when sent
> to users).  In fact it would be trivial to fake an operwall by simply
> applying this prefix to a standard wallops message.  The client has no way
> of determining if this is really an operwall or not, a script is better
> suited to this.  It would be better if scripts could simply create their
> own log levels (beyond just USER1-USER4, levels with their own names etc).

This isn't quite correct.  Oper wallops are differentiated from *local*
oper wallops by that prefix, and it is done by issuing a /whois or
/userhost (I'm not sure which EPIC is using these days).  The client
itself adds the prefix, not the server.  (Undernet's '*' and '$'
prefixes are a little more specialized...)

It would be very easy for the client to differentiate an *operator*
wallops from a *server* wallops: is the origin a user or a server?
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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