Re: New type of abuse

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 09, forcer wrote:
| Lately, i've seen surprisingly many nick collissions while various parties
| are attacking different channels.
| First i thought it to be coincidence, but the kills were nicely timed, and
| allways occurred on ppl with chanop status.
| I informed myself a bit and found the way those parties accomplish this:
| On a netmerge, a clone is placed on the merging server(s). This clone changes
| it's nick to that of the person(s) being attacked. It won't get a "temporarily
| unavailable", but a kill on both sides.

This should not happen.

| This is a fact and works, I tried it on myself a few times.
| So, what's going on here?
| I suppose it's the delay code.
[delay code description]

no, ND doesn't work this way.
when a nick is locked, it's locked until the timer expires
(15 minutes by default)

I guess the question remains as to why you're able to do
this.