Re: TS (Re: RFC: OP cheating)

[Chris Behrens <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Better solution: unique IDs per client...no one will ever get a message
bound for anyone else, ever, whether it be a /mode, /msg, etc..

Undernet already does this...EFnet will at some point...

- Chris

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Chris Behrens
Software Engineer
Concentric Network Corporation


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Christophe Kalt wrote:

> On Mar 17, Robert Martin-Legene wrote:
> | Timestamps would solve a lot of problems. Syrk doesn't like it though. I
> | guess it has something to do with the bandwidth? (Syrk?)
> 
> see http://www.stealth.net/~kalt/irc/TS-Delay.html
> and http://www.stealth.net/~kalt/irc/stats/collisions.html
> 
> ND and CD do a good job, adding TS now would only slightly
> improve the situation (while ND/CD _or_ TS alone improve it
> a lot) which makes it rather unattractive.
> 
> Besides, I still hear from EFnet coders and opers that there
> are still unresolved issues with their version of TS.
> 
> (bandwidth is also a concern)
>