Ville wrote: > On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Piotr Kucharski wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:31:26PM +0100, Matthew Sullivan wrote: > > > > The only real way of stopping the abuse of users/servers is to stop the abusers > > > of the system from getting the power in the first place > > > yeah! get rid of ops, nicks and channels! > > Agreed! > > I'm glad Matthew pointed this thread into the right direction with the > highly useful posting. > > *sigh* Sorry, but a well placed 'innocent' thought or two can lead to great features/enhancements, sometimes enabling the abusers to keep their rewards for abusing.... Hostmask hiding would be IMO a _very_ good example...Just as open servers who don't even enforce their own motd's etc...etc...etc... I won't bore/winge about this anymore in this thread, as I am 1/ just posting my point, well placed or not.... and 2/ of the belief it is a thread that should be following along lists like ircnet@xxxxxxx where it would have a major impact for better or worse.... -- Yours Matthew -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
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