Re: +b/+e chains

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Dec 17, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote:
| Now, when you have a ban on channel and an exception matching
| that ban, you cannot set another ban that matches both previous
| ban and exception. I think this is a good idea to have such
| +b/+e chains. A little example:
| 
| We have +b *!*@*.com. Then we want to set exception for 
| *.anet.com, and we add +e *!*@*.anet.com. But then we also want
| irc.anet.com to be banned anyway. When we try to set +b *!*@irc.anet.com,
| we won't be able to do it due to existing ban *!*@*.com. I think
| it should be allowed, since this new ban matches an exception and
| is "more exact" than exception. Then, if we want shekel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| not to be banned, we also can set +e *!shekel@xxxxxxxxxxxx, and
| etc. I think you got an idea: new +b or +e should be settable in
| such cases to organize +b/+e chains, where more exact +b or +e 
| should have higher priority.

even if adding the !*@irc.anet.com ban was possible, it
would not change anything: irc.anet.com matches *.anet.com
THUS is it NOT banned.

+e are EXCEPTIONS to bans, +b are NOT exceptions to +e.