Re: nick collide prevention ideas

[Fredrik Dahlberg <Fredrik.Dahlberg@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Piotr Kucharski wrote:

> > You want to make sure that nobody can use an uid (cid part) that someone
> > used before, right? This means after you crashed too. So you have to
> > keep track where you are.
> 
> Ah, that's, what you mean. Start with (time() - 94000000). Or minus whatever
> release date would be. That'd be enough for running server with 44^5 to
> Wed Jan  5 10:10:24 2005, and with 44^6 to, damn, counters overflowed. ;-)
> About 200 years more. ;)

I don't see the problem here? Why cannot the server start with the first
aviable number for the user part of the nicks? So that the first user who
connected because xxxx00001 the second xxxx00002 and so on. When it comes
to server nicks, couldn't this information be added in the M line? Sure,
you would have to agree upon who get's what etc, but that shouldn't be a
problem.