Re: !channels

[Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:00:53AM -0500, Christophe Kalt wrote:
> #1: should /join !foo fail if there are several !<ID>foo's ?
>     (for consistency with most commands? see below.  But i
>      think /join is an exception)

I thik it should join the one which exists longest. (locally on this
server). This would (IMHO) usually be that what the user wants.

> #2: I believe clients (at the very list, aliases) should
>     easily take care of this and make it friendly to the
>     user.
> 
> I am reluctant because I feel that someday we'll regret
> this, and once all users will be used to this, it'll be very
> hard to make them change.
> 
> The danger is that !foo is NOT enough to identify a unique
> name (otherwise, why would we bother with IDs?).
> 
> if !QWERTfoo exists, I could create !<ID>QUERTYfoo, in which
> case !QWERTYfoo is now _very_ ambiguous.

I do think that letting the client handle all this is cleaner. But most
probably most client-authors will be very lazy and not do this. This
then will result in the non-use of this channels by the users (because
it's to hard for them)

CU,
    Sec
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