Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: irssi-text
The "/ping" command, on most IRC clients of my knowledge, sends a PING
command to the IRC server.
On irssi, "/ping <channel/nickname>" sends a CTCP PING to
<channel/nickname>, and even "/ping" without any arguments sends one to
the current channel.
Pinging an entire large channel (such as the official Ubuntu support
channel) is often not tolerated, and getting hundreds of CTCP PING
replies from other users is likely to deny service to the sender's
client.
I believe that a more appropriate action for "/ping" would be to send
PING to the server, or at least to refuse to work without an explicit
channel/nickname argument.
** Affects: irssi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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"/ping" with no arguments CTCP PINGs the channel
https://launchpad.net/bugs/96758
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