Re: Max Bans

[Robert Martin-Legene <robert@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Piotr Kucharski wrote:

> > The problem is quite obvious. One server will not have all the bans a
> > second one has. Users get confused, since they probably can't track it
> > down. Not good. 
> 
> What? Are you saying, that MXB affects both clients and servers?

No, but the user will have difficulty tracking it down.

Imagine user A ("UA") on server A ("SA"). SA has a max ban setting of
"endless". User B ("UB") on server B ("SB") will get banned by UA, but SB
can only have 21 bans and hence ignores the ban since it's list is now
full.
  UB joins the channel. UA wonders and asks his SA (since he can't ask SB
when he's using SA) for bans on the channel and get's a "full" list.

That would certainly make most users confused.

-- Robert Martin-Legène (RM59), Network Manager, DKnet (AS2109), Denmark

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