Re: [Re: nick collide prevention ideas]

[Fredrik Dahlberg <Fredrik.Dahlberg@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 borud@xxxxxxx wrote:

> if I have understood this correctly, when that nick is collided it
> changes automatically?  how do you ensure that the collider doesn't
> pull the trick I mentioned earlier?  

Since the nick it changed to would be unique, and would start with a
number, they would not be able to collide it. I like the idea Beeth had
(http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~chopin/uniqueID.txt). If this would be
implemented, it would not be easy to collide I would say :)

Also, I would also like to comment that it is easy to say "Create a new
channel" etc. Sure, it is the only solution, but for a lot of "ordinary"
users, who are not as keen on how to use irc as we are, a takeover would
mean they lost contact with a lot of friends. So, we could say that if we
implemented uniqueID and used ! channels, they would be almost impossible
to take, but it would get very confusing for users unless the clients were
updated to do this transparently.

That's all for me on this issue :)