Re: ideas to improve ircnet (was: where are we heading to)

[Thomas Kuiper <engerim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christophe,

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Christophe Kalt wrote:

> On Mar 17, Thomas Kuiper wrote:
> | 1. New user modes
> | 
> |   +h : This will add a new nummeric to the ircd, named:
> 
> adding new privileges is a no no.
> and this kind of functionnality can easily be implemented
> using a service.

hm, well, after thinking a bit deeper about this you're right
but it would be at least a nice little 'feature' ;)
#320 is still free and would be nice to have in some way for
some features.

> |   +m
> | 
> |   If users whine that they got nuked, this is the solve of it.
> |   hello.world.org would gets translated to *.world.org, 192.168.10.22
> |   would get translated to 192.168.10.* so that you see the users
> 
> this is not sufficient to keep someone from either guessing
> or finding your IP.

yes, ok, agreed, and it can be dangerous too (aol.com has only
one level of hosts)

> | 2. Command addons
> | 
> |   LIST -> sucks, cause it generates a really huge sendq
> |   (its like doing /NAMES in the current net) so this command
> |   should allow wildcards in some way that it doesnt flood you off.
> 
> whine whine whine,

*sorry* :-)

> i've said over and over again that a service could replace
> /list.. still have to see someone stepping forward.

well, sure a service could do it (but there is already a webinterface
who is nearly like this), and people wont you use it (I think).

> i've also considered adding matching in ircd for list and
> names but never got around to it and am not sure it's such a
> good idea anymore considering it's adding strain to the
> server.

But it also reduces/traffic memory usage of the ircd, so it would
be kinda nice. A intresting thing I saw lately on one server is
that I could do /STATS I (huge list came) without trouble, but
/LIST gave me a Dead Socket. There's something wrong with /LIST
and I'm looking forward to try this search* stuff if I find time.

On the other hand, services, who have already been written should
release as free software (since it uses the ircd which is gpl)
and patches FL4/CRxy/Nl1 should be placed someone at ftp.irc.org
so that these patches can be checked out and maybe added one day
to the real ircd.

Greets,
Engerim