Re: Reducing nick-collision takeovers

[Greg Budai <thuffir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

borud@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> the only thing that would work is timestamps or, what we use now, that
> the server remembers nicks for a period of time after a split.
> timestamps seem to be out of the question (I don't remember the exact
> rationale for this,  but at the time it was presented I agreed that
> whoever presented it had an important point).

TS decides which client to kill, and sometimes it decides wrong. And TS
require extra traffic on the net. Thats why it is out of question :)

For more info see:

http://www.stealth.net/~kalt/irc/TS-Delay.html

Thuff