Re: invites(2)

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Zachary Maas wrote:
> 
> 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

What mode change? When I invite someone and he joins I don't see any
mode change. Or do you mean like the ^G after the channel name witch is
used for modes now? You could use a letter i for it, to show that he is
invited. I think by now most clients support it, and the others stopped
crashing :)


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