Re: invites(2)

[Zachary Maas <zac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Christophe Kalt wrote:

> On Mar 22, I wrote:
> | right now, /invite only overrides +i mode,
> | I'm thinking of having it override +b and +l modes as well,
> | when issued by a channel operator.
> 
> 1/ overriding +b is a problem because it becomes difficult
> to know if the user is evading the ban, or being invited.
> 
> 2/ overriding +l seems fine,
> 
> 3/ overriding +k is the same as giving out the key, thus
> pointless.
> 
> 
> #1 is by far the interesting part, and I believe the point
> raised is a valid concern.
> a way to solve the problem is to have some kind of notice
> sent by the user's server when he's overriding a ban thanks
> to an invite.  It's annoying:
> 
> * most likely the information will be in a message separate
> from the join, which means that most bots/scripts will never
> get it right
> * I can't find any good/elegant way to do this.
> 

How about including it in the mode change?  Will this break clients?  Will
this confuse  people?  A notice  to  the user  is just to kludgy, imho and
this way is probably not the best way todo it either.

Zac