Re: Anti-collide patch

[Piotr Kucharski <chopin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 01:39:49AM +0000, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
> PS Sorry if it's isn't very constructive but i think unique ID's are the
> solution and the removal of 'Nicks' .. ie each 'nick' is the
> "Mickey!mickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and if the clients only choose to
> display 'Mickey' fine, not a prob, but it will help to ensure that nick
> collides are done by users colliding themselves, or hacked servers.  TO
> have full nick/hosts will enable things like op'ing in channel by host
> not by nick etc, stopping more lagged server hacks etc etc etc....

That breaks clients. But !channels already broke it :) It breaks rfc
even more, but... I don't know. I have to think about it.

Piotr