Re: /who mask

[Thomas Kuiper <engerim@xxxxxxxxx>]

 "I wouldn't do that if I were you"

Thats ircII, not stealth. Some people really think who is really the best
command cause of all its parameters (like /who -oper *.de), but its
actually only their client who parses it :-) To make a point, leave
who like it is too, maybe someone wants to see all visible users
(spammers for example) :P

Greets,
Engerim


On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matthew Sullivan wrote:

> Michal *pht* Svoboda wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, wnelson wrote:
> >
> > > How about changing /names and /who so that they must accept at least
> > > one parameter? Typed on their own, the resulting flood of information is
> > > IMO of no use to anyone really (and often just results in the client
> > > being disconnected).
> >
> > Smart clients catch this "typo". And smart servers have enough high sendq.
> 
> 1/ Some servers also catch it ... stealth i think replies with 'You don't
> really want to do that' - I think
> 2/ Teaches you not to do it again.../be more careful...
> 3/ Clients like BitchX catch this nicely... they won't catch the command sent
> directly sent to the server though - but one would conceed that a user sending
> the "raw/quote'd" command would be doing so because they do know the
> consequences....
>