Re: thoughts on new modes (Ie)

[Ville <viha@xxxxxx>]

[ oops, I had forgotten to send this mail, a bit late reply. ]

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Bjorn Reese wrote:

> For each hack there is a counterhack.

> /mode #channel +b *!*@*.org
> /mode #channel +e *!*@*.org

Exactly.

> Give the poor people on IRC a break. If you are concerned about netjoin
> burst then remove this feature all along. If you disagree with how they
> manage these new features just stay off their channels.

Agreed.

It  doesn't  matter which way the feature is planned, there still is a
chance  to  misuse it  by jumping the modes back and forth (unless the
feature is done in a complicated enough way to make sure it's unusable
for the average user).

Hmm. I cannot remember what was my original opinion about +e/I (as  in
was  I against it or just the opposite) when it was being planned, but
atm it seems to me like a feature that might not after all be  such  a
big improvement. At least without defects.

I actually saw a few intelligent (whoa) posts on Operlist about the +e
stuff, I think. But now that I later look in the archive,  I can  only
find the usual babbling there. Oh well. 

BTW. What's happened to the EFnet TS4 stuff? Has it been dumped or how
come there hasn't been much talk about it lately, at least on  any  of
the lists I am subscribed to ?


Later,

- Ville/viha@xxxxxx