Re: Suggestion for moderating nick changes.

[Bobby Billingsley <bobby@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Piotr Kucharski wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:01:34AM +0200, Bobby Billingsley wrote:
> > 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. ;)
> 
> there is quite strong penalty. if banned user changes nick, he/she can not
> do anything for 15 secs

Ahh - I stand (sit?) corrected.  (so much for not bothering to read the
sources) ;)

/bobby

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