Re: some more on "op cheating"

[Chris Behrens <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Robert Martin-Legene wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > Unique id's would cure it.. as it is the recipient who gets flooded, the
> > sender is just lagged to the recipient and someone catches it 'on the lag'
> > rarely by accident, nearly always by flooding the recipient of the mode +o
> > <nick>  and nick stealing before the mode catches up on the lag.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't see why this lag couldn't be from sender to sender's
> server?

Then that is not an IRC problem.  That is someone producing some sort of
denial of service attack which attacks a person outside of IRC...That
is not a problem ircd can (or should) resolve.

- Chris

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Chris Behrens
Software Engineer
Concentric Network Corporation