Re: doc/Etiquette

[Michal *pht* Svoboda <svobodam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Jukka Tapani Santala wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tomas Edwardsson wrote:
> > I believe the following is no longer true?
> > 4) {}|[]\
> 
> However, when this came up with another codebase, it turned out IRC client
> authors haven't read the damn RFC, or have considered it too insignificant
> to implement. [nick] and {nick} open separate chat-windows etc. according
> to these reports. What's more embarassing, some services-bots authors have
> "forgotten" this peculiarity of the IRC protocol, no matter it's written
> clearly in a central place of the RFC document. When this was discovered
> on DALnet (at the time third largest IRC network, and still one of the
> servers-of-choice for independent networks) the Services branch summarily
> decided it was "an ircd bug", and had it changed in the server. This
> naturally resulted in the non-upgraded servers crashing causing total
> downtime...
> 
hmm. isnt this way too much similar to Y2K problem?

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