Re: thoughts on new modes (Ie)

["Genady" <lucky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly the same I thought about yesterday ;)
Do it.

LuckySt


-----Original Message-----
From: Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ircd-users@xxxxxxx <ircd-users@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, 25 November 1998 21:21
Subject: thoughts on new modes (Ie)


>I can see a pattern developping where these modes are used
>in a way which was not intended originally.
>
>The purpose of these modes is to provide exceptions (to the
>mode +i, and to bans); instead I fear they will mostly be
>used as a prevention method: "I am chanop, let me set +eI
>for myself in case I need it later".
>
>I think this is bad, and here are a set of actions we could
>take to avoid this:
>
>* +I can only be set when the channel is +i
>* furthermore, setting the channel -i removes all +I entries
>
>* +e <foo> can only be set if <foo> matches a current ban
>* +e entries are removed once they no longer match a current ban
>
>Thoughts?
>
>