Re: [Coder-com] Greetings

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Foster
If Client1 -> ServerA is encrypted, ServerA <-> ServerB is encrypted, ServerB <- Client2 is encrypted, Then that particular conversation (query) would be encrypted end to end, yes? For as long as the server accepts non-encrypted client connections, then yes there's the obvious aspect of all things

Re: [Coder-com] Channel moderation and authed-only modes

2009-03-18 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Donald WHIZZARD Lambert wrote: > Is there a real reason a user would want a > non registered user to not be able to join, but be able to > talk ? I can see the reverse, acting as the +m does now. Yes. If you're using temporary application of the mode to prevent a join/pa

Re: [Coder-Com] Fwd: [Cservice] accessability enquiry

2003-03-29 Thread Mark Foster
This also crossed my mind but we're talking Windows users here. There arent many decent command line apps for Windows nowadays. ircII/epic etc is a linux app and yes, would probably be far better - but thems the breaks... I feel for the dude, a good friend of mine is fully blind and always had fu

[Coder-Com] Annoying

2003-03-24 Thread Mark Foster
A[13:45] *** Thrust was kicked by Oslo2.NO.EU.undernet.org (Net Rider) [13:45] *** PhoeniX^ was kicked by Oslo2.NO.EU.undernet.org (Net Rider) Anything actually going to be done to prevent this? (*legitimate* rejoins)

Re: [Coder-Com] Net Rider protection going crazy!

2003-01-21 Thread Mark Foster
At 10:01 21/01/2003 -0600, you wrote: * Morten Paludan-Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-21 12:40:57 +0100]: > [11:12:01] *** hane was kicked by Elsene.Be.Eu.undernet.org (Net Rider) > > In private she tells me that the server says this when trying to enter: > > [11:15:48] (hane): [04

[Coder-Com] Opnotice weirdness

2002-12-29 Thread Mark Foster
[13:02] [13:01] -Season`d:@#zt- @ @ @ @ hummm better paste me what is happening [13:02] [18:04] -BlakJ|Wrk:@#zt- @ @ @ @ [Ops/#zt] so its your scdrip tthen :P Forgive my dodgy typing, but it would appear that opnotices are prefixed with a random number of @'s now? [13:14] -[Vilhelm]:@#removed-

Re: [Coder-Com] umode +x

2002-12-16 Thread Mark Foster
FWIW this makes it fun to fix Access Controls in bots and stuff like that which use hosts.. having to /quit to reconnect and get a recognised host is annoying as hell... I personally would have liked this feature to be available although it wouldnt be used often for the most part I guess. At

[Coder-Com] X question - low level bans

2002-08-08 Thread Mark Foster
[15:44] [23:43] -X- Added ban *usp*!*@* to #somechan at level 74 [15:44] *** X sets mode: +o USP [15:44] *** X sets mode: -o USP [15:45] heh [15:45] *** X sets mode: +o USP [15:45] *** X sets mode: -o USP [15:45] X still does that [15:46] -> *X* lbanlist #somechan * [15:46] -X- *** Ban List for

[Coder-Com] Allowed Hostnames Patch Required?

2002-07-28 Thread Mark Foster
#ZT Recently had a security issue caused by an 'interesting' hostname. theZoMBiE is qqlaw@#!/bin/sh.B-S-D.org was not Hostnames with ! in them are going to break clients, scripts and Coding are they not? Shouldnt these be disallowed?

Re: [Coder-Com] Newbie ircU issue - oper password in rc1

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Foster
Ok thanks to R33D33R - Encrypted passwords were the problem. F:CRYPT_OPER_PASSWORD:FALSE This fixed the problem. I had left the original set of F:lines as default (all commented, so all were set at their defaults). I presume encrypted passwords is the default setting. I generated my encrypted

[Coder-Com] Newbie ircU issue - oper password in rc1

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Foster
I just finished setting up a new server.. compiled and loaded first time! :) However Im having issues with the O:lines. Those of you currently in #coder-com might have seen me mention this. [11:26] O:*@*:test:blakjak::10 [11:26] so thats my oline [11:26] i go /oper blakjak test [11:26] and

Fwd: Re: [Coder-Com] username in /whois?? please remove!

2002-04-19 Thread Mark Foster
BlakJak.. its not like its not obvious.) Be a little more careful whom you target with your emails, Brian. Mark. >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sent: 19 Apr 2002 08:35:08 GMT >From: "Brian Gilliford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mark Foster" <[E

Re: [Coder-Com] username in /whois?? please remove!

2002-04-19 Thread Mark Foster
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:17:10 -0700 Judging by those headers, trek.sbg.org held onto this message for 2 and a half hours before forwarding it on? Whats going on? At 13:16 19/04/02 +1200, Mark Foster wrote: >Attacks? If you type /msg x verify it will say if youre log

Re: [Coder-Com] username in /whois?? please remove!

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Foster
... verify always works, whether your X info is invisible or not. One thing I would possibly suggest is having it say 'User is logged in to X' instead of actually quoting the username. Mark. At 23:55 18/04/02 -0400, you wrote: >You can however, hide yourself a little by doing: > >/msg x set i

Re: [Coder-Com] username in /whois?? please remove!

2002-04-18 Thread Mark Foster
Attacks? If you type /msg x verify it will say if youre logged in as a given username. What difference does it make? *sigh* At 20:07 18/04/02 -0500, you wrote: >Kindly remove the new "feature" that displays one's username in a /whois >results. >This is an open invitation to attacks and an inva

Re: [Coder-Com] /whois nick nick issue?

2002-04-16 Thread Mark Foster
/ctcp nick finger for mirc clients it will show idle time in seconds, unless theyve modified their CTCP replies via a script or something. :) I use it as my last resort :) Mark (BlakJak) At 11:07 16/04/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Guess I should read a bit more on that CFV... that is a really >ann

Re: [Coder-Com] Spamfilter

2002-03-15 Thread Mark Foster
We could have non-subbed-members set to send to the moderator instead of the whole list? Then at least someone has to approve their postage... At 13:11 15/03/02 -0600, you wrote: >Spam is not so easy to reject. I'll try to keep up with filtering better >though. And HTML, sure if you want me to

Re: [Coder-Com] Please hide some more :)

2002-01-30 Thread Mark Foster
Yeah, I had heard something about this, but this more or less answers Stime's other query to me. My point was that the UserIP command *is* useful when someone is *spoofing* a user@host - I use it to verify hostnames etc - But given that Undernet has not implimented any system allowing a users host

Re: [Coder-Com] Please hide some more :)

2002-01-29 Thread Mark Foster
ircU as implimented on Undernet doesnt allow users hosts to be hidden.. so its not something I can see implimented any time soon, unless usermode +x becomes prolific? At 03:23 30/01/2002 +0100, stime wrote: >Hello, >I noticed things like /links and /stats are disabled. >Its a good thing, but...

Re: [Coder-Com] little bug ?

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Foster
Oh, then i check the banlist: [06:09] [#zonefive] McLean.VA.us +b *!*@grsys1.geomath.fr 3d 13h 26m 44s ago [06:09] [#zonefive] End of banlist (1 bans) (completely irrelevant ban). Thus the only ban by the finish was the one BlakSun removed: [06:08] *** Mode change for #zonefive by BlakSun: -b

Re: [Coder-Com] little bug ?

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Foster
Ok, I stand corrected - Hidden and I were discussing the X ban thing online at the same time as he reported the ban issue, I muddled the two :P I tried it: /mode #zonefive + *!~test@test *!~2test2@2test *!~3test3@3test *!~*@* [06:08] *** Mode change for #zonefive by BlakJak: -bbb *!~3test3@

Re: [Coder-Com] little bug ?

2001-12-10 Thread Mark Foster
At 04:05 11/12/01 +0100, nighty wrote: >Hi, > >donc Cc: to people (like me) that answer to questions on the list... if >they do so, they are subscribed ;P Its what you get when you use reply-all, if youre a lazy poster. :P > >On the old X you could, with this version of X you can often easily

Re: [Coder-Com] little bug ?

2001-12-10 Thread Mark Foster
I think the point here is that you cant remove the specific ban in X based on mask, without removing any other ban set in X which masks that ban ... On the old X you could, with this version of X you can often easily remove other bans that you might want to leave behind eg: *!~[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Coder-Com] gnuworld

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Foster
Last I heard we were working on this.. but yeah, USP is still running the old-x-emulation code, at least for the meantime. I know of a couple of people whove coded emulation TCL so im sure our brilliant coders will work their miracles per usual :P Cheers BlakJak UserService Administrator :) A

Re: [Coder-Com] Quit messages

2001-10-01 Thread Mark Foster
Disagree. Why hamper what are often not a problem? When we start censoring quit messages we have to continue to censor everything  Sheesh, I can think of bigger deals than the length of quit messages... Mark/BlakJak At 17:52 1/10/01 +0200, Bjørn Osdal wrote: I presume I`m not the only one on u

Re: [Coder-Com] About suspension, and how to override it.

2001-09-27 Thread Mark Foster
I still think an added user should have to approve being finally added somehow - which would solve this problem. I nearly wrote essentially what you just did Greg but bit my tongue.. Can I re-request that the coder-com consider reccomending that a notice like -X- ReBELSucks has attempted to add

Re: [Coder-Com] Status command

2001-09-06 Thread Mark Foster
I second this; if a channel op is using their position as an op via X from outside the channel it'd be nice to see where they were authed from ! Whilst i see the logic to the move perhaps this needs to be coupled with something else - when /msg x adduser #channel - this needs to be acknowledg

Re: [Coder-Com] OK I am slow...

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Foster
Ive heard of ircd's which do this sort of thing but I *dont* reccomend them. If you want to be an op in every channel, install some channel services ala uworld. ? It'd require you to issue a mode request to a bot, or an oper service. Mark. At 09:38 5/09/2001 -0400, Kev wrote: > > I am

[Coder-Com] sigh!

2001-08-22 Thread Mark Foster
[11:24] -X- Auth: jcar114 [500] BlakJak [100] crispy [100] [11:24] -X- Auth: jcar114/dess|afk [500] BlakJak/Blak|Work [100] crispy/DodgyUni [100] The difference between these two reports - I wasnt in #auckland for the first one, and i was in the second. Wouldnt it be useful to see what NICK

Re: [Coder-Com] MOTD

2001-08-20 Thread Mark Foster
At the risk of getting involved in a flame war; I can see 'power hungry' becoming a fairly subjective term. If you have serious complaints about the conduct of an oper, logs and allegations need to go to the admin concerned. Where the admin is abusive, the data needs to go to one of the other

Re: [Coder-Com] MOTD

2001-08-20 Thread Mark Foster
I feel we're approaching the pedantic here. Maybe servers should cache MOTD information then ? Its not like it'd be hard to propogate an update - and the MOTD is important when looking for bot servers, etc. Mark. At 18:51 20/08/2001 +1200, you wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:04:10 +1200 you

[Coder-Com] MOTD

2001-08-19 Thread Mark Foster
[10:59] ./motd paris* [10:59] Permission Denied: You're not an IRC operator Any reason why motd was part of the pl14/15 mods? Remote MOTD would be useful to guests I should think. Mark (BlakJak)

RE: [Coder-Com] Probably a dumb question...

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Foster
#x27;re in and what notjust think how much more >it would take to put the topic for every channel in that too. > >correct me if i'm wrong...this is what i remember hearing. > >-Dawg/Brian Steil > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Coder-Com] Probably a dumb question...

2001-08-14 Thread Mark Foster
But is there any way to get the servers to compare eachothers topics and refresh them if one is missing on net.burst? You must have noticed that the topics quite often are seen on one server and not another after netsplits.. ?

Re: [Coder-Com] /who #chan

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Foster
As was most eloquently pointed out to me off-list (Thanks Guppy :P) I neglected to consider information hidden by the clients... Disregard my attempt at humour ... :/ At 08:49 3/07/2001 +1200, you wrote: >well NO... we still want to be able to see the IPs of people in channels, >if not the s

Re: [Coder-Com] /who #chan

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Foster
well NO... we still want to be able to see the IPs of people in channels, if not the server theyre on (all that is hidden right now) Unless youre really deliberately trying to turn this into undernet.chat.yahoo.com? :P PS: Hey Wenny :) Mark. At 22:21 2/07/2001 +1000, you wrote: >might wish

Re: [Coder-Com] banned nicknames

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Foster
hen deop yourself and change yer >nick > > >ReBEL > >- Original Message - >From: "Mark Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:14 AM >Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] banned nicknames > > > > Its

Re: [Coder-Com] banned nicknames

2001-05-20 Thread Mark Foster
Its the same principle as inviting people around bans - except nicks can be changed on the fly... Maybe it needs to be forbidden to change nicks whilst in a channel where a ban masks the nick ? -.-. --.- Mark Foster - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Manager, Intermech Ltd +64-21-499-368 / +64-9-525-2220

Re: [Coder-Com] Protection (if you can understand french, give that email to someone able to read it, very important)

2001-05-19 Thread Mark Foster
Not even Channel Ops. Only IRC Operators can see true hosts. Most implimentations of this turn the hostname from: p34-max1.akl.ihug.co.nz to random.things.here.co.nz Thus bans using *!*ident@*.co.nz still apply and work OK. This method doesnt actually remove a lot of the ban features we still

Re: [Coder-Com] Suggestion

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Foster
Perhaps then set (if not already done) the ability to include a module which contains those changes? As opposed to beefing up deployed Undernet ircU with stuff we dont use? :P - Original Message - From: "Perry Lorier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "n3tguy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Coder-Com] Suggestion

2001-05-01 Thread Mark Foster
3tguy -.-. --.- Mark Foster aka BlakJak [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.blakjak.net (coming soon)