Re: [Coder-Com] Channel names with character 3 in them

2003-01-10 Thread The Storm Surfer
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:20:43PM -0500, Kev wrote:
>
> > When trying to join channels with ascii character 3 in the name, I now get a
> > 'cahannel does not exist' error.  Since when?  How come?  Will this be fixed?
> > The RFC doesn't seem to say anything about any channel names being illegal.
>
> Since u2.10.11.03.  Because these channel names have been abused in an
> attempt to make the abuser appear to be an official.  This will not be
> changed.  No, the RFC says nothing about these characters in a channel
> name being illegal.

I thought colors were a client thing and not ircu's problem.



Re: [Coder-Com] Channel names with character 3 in them

2003-01-10 Thread Kev
> > Since u2.10.11.03.  Because these channel names have been abused in an
> > attempt to make the abuser appear to be an official.  This will not be
> > changed.  No, the RFC says nothing about these characters in a channel
> > name being illegal.
> 
> I thought colors were a client thing and not ircu's problem.

For text sent to a channel, yes, they are.  However, channel names are
already filtered for illegal characters.
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>




[Coder-Com] Re: Sample

2003-01-10 Thread big
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