Addendum to the tkServ announcement

[ircnet@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kaspar Landsberg)]

Hello all,

after talking to some people about tkserv, i realized that i wasn't exact  
enough in my previous announcement which went to this list. So here are  
some facts which should have been included in the announcement (sorry):

- the temporary k-line service doesn't link to other tk-services on the
  net. It only serves/concerns each "local" server it is running on.
  (Therefore, it's _not_ something like a global k-line system which would
  allow people to k-line globally.)

- only global operators may use any temporary k-line service. But it's not
  relevant _where_ they have their O: line. They just need to be opered
  but they _also_ must have an additional authorization on the concerned
  tkserv. This means that if you were running this service, this would not
  automatically mean that all opers can temp k-line users on your server.

- the benefits of the service are generally those:
  + faster/easier k-lining of users
  + the possibility to k-line users only for a given amount of time
    (in the future, this amount of time can be specified (in hours))
  + the possibility to allow opers from other servers to temp k-line
    abusers on your server (so they don't have to /kill them :)
  + could replace /kill (if lots of servers run it)


Happy New 1998,

Kasi

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Kaspar Landsberg, <kl@xxxxxxxxxxx>