Q wrote: > Thomas Kuiper wrote: > > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Piotr Kucharski wrote: > > > > ---[snip]--- > > The ID should be generated > > as CRC32 from servername+originalnickname+signontime really fast and easy. > > I have no idea how to do it yet, but that doesn't look like a good idea. > More something like serverID + userID, where userID is probably > something based on the fd. > <chosen nick>+<server name> ? since there can not be 2 servers the same that would make it unique...as there would not ever be a lag problem on one server ;-) ... possibly could make code changes smaller, easier, and would be a lot easier to track server abuse/abusers .. it would solve the problem of the clients/servers holding alias lists from uid to preferred nick.... -- Yours Matthew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In recognizing AT&T Bell Laboratories for corporate innovation, for its invention of cellular mobile communications, IEEE President Russell C. Drew referred to the cellular telephone as a "basic necessity." How times have changed, one observer remarked: many in the room recalled the advent of direct dialing. -- The Institute, July 1988, pg. 11
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