Re: Suggestion for moderating nick changes.

[Bobby Billingsley <bobby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:

> -> I know this has probably been discussed before, but I'm convinced that
> -> not allowing nick changes when a user does not have the power of speech
> -> on one or more channels would be a good thing for IRCnet.
> 
> interesting idea, but the problem was just said - nick changes are channel
> independent...

Hmm...funny...I would have thought that since nickchanges are propagated
to all servers it would be of interest to limit this form of abuse. I fail
to see any reason for not leveraging some heavy penalties on this form of
abuse.  After all it does consume both bandwidth and server resources. ;)

/bobby

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