Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Hidden
banning *!*@* has some advantages. When you ban *!*@* from a channel, only voiced and opped people will be able to talk, to change their nicks, and no one will be able to join. In chans like #class, it's sometimes useful to have that ban enabled. Anyway, if someone wishes to lock a chan, he can

Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Smith
Regarding *!*@*.* see Isomer's email. There IS enough security. Regarding what to do when your username is hacked on undernet... First, go to http://cservice.undernet.org/live/ login (if you still can) and change your password, if you cannot login, use forgotten password (link both in side bar a

Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Dave C.
I agree The ability to ban *!*@* should be either (a) limited to cservice staff only, or (b) blocked completely to everyone. In my opinion, 9 times out of 10, a *!*@* ban is considered abusive and probably used to maliciously lock up the channel. I don't really see a need to allow anyone to b

[Coder-Com] IRCd development talk

2002-05-17 Thread Ruben Cardenal
Hello We are sending this e-mail on behalf of the members who developed the IRC of Irc-Hispano.org, in order to organise the first meeting among the main developers of the IRC of the most important irc networks in the world Our purpose is to organise a debate from time to time in one of those ne

Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Isomer
> My proposal is to add a new channel setting (level > 500). For example FULLBAN (OFF or ON) which allow (or > not) users to set bans on *.* . I guess is a good > ideea... 10x & please excuse my english. > How does the IRC daemon know if a ban is a full ban? *!*@* *!*@*.* *!*@*.??? *!~*@

Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Bjørn Osdal JR
2002-05-17 14:50:20, skrev Cosmin Marcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Hello. > >Almost everybody knows that if you have sufficient >access in a channel to set a ban through X and you set >that ban on *!*@*.* X will kick all users from that >channel. You need access level >= ban level to remove >it. The p

Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Alexander Maassen
Hello Cosmin, Friday, May 17, 2002, 2:50:20 PM, you wrote: CM> Hello. CM> Almost everybody knows that if you have sufficient CM> access in a channel to set a ban through X and you set CM> that ban on *!*@*.* X will kick all users from that CM> channel. You need access level >= ban level to remo

[Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] Adding multi-accept

2002-05-17 Thread Sascha Schumann
> I noticed that some of the temporary error conditions will exit the > function. You might want to consider using continues in the while > form. Thanks for pointing this out. If the IRC server is configured for low load situations, I'd prefer not rejecting connections and thus retu

[Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] Adding multi-accept

2002-05-17 Thread Kev
> This change implements multi-accept, based on the idea that > poll/select can only be efficient, if we succeed in handling > all available events, i.e. accept all pending connections. I noticed that some of the temporary error conditions will exit the function. You might want to co

[Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] Q-lines patch (2.10.11)

2002-05-17 Thread Kev
> Here it is, pretty much tested and working. Thanks :) looks good, so I committed it. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Cosmin Marcu
Hello. Almost everybody knows that if you have sufficient access in a channel to set a ban through X and you set that ban on *!*@*.* X will kick all users from that channel. You need access level >= ban level to remove it. The problem is that the username's password can be stolen. So, with a stol

Re: [Coder-Com] adding multi-accept

2002-05-17 Thread Kev
> have you considered adding the multi-accept capability to the > server? Feel free to send a patch to patches@--please include ChangeLog entries and a commit message. If you can't do that, we'll try to look into it when we get a chance, but it might be a while. -- Kevin L. Mitchell <[E