[kl@kl.Snafu.DE: Re: Anti-collide patch]

[Kaspar Landsberg <kl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forgot to CC: that reply to the list...

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:41:01 +0100
From: Kaspar Landsberg <kl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Joern Westermann <jw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Anti-collide patch

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 02:20:44PM +0100, Joern Westermann wrote:

| Unfortunately all current IRCNet servers reject a nick with a leading
| digit as "errorneous". So it won't be possible to mix new (even unique
| ID) servers with old version. And if you see that after several months
| after the release of 2.10 dozens of servers still stick with 2.9, how
| would anyone force a whole net to upgrade at once?

hmm, true. But i guess FNC would create quite some chaos and the abusers
will sooner or later find a way to cheat around it or whatever. Thus i
think it´d be better to work on a more radical change such as Beeth´s ID
thing. FNC would probably be only a temporary approach.

Bye, Kasi

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