gac experiment

[Thomas Kuiper <engerim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some might find this experience interesting, and I thought
I'd share it. It's about all these patches there are now to fix
network issues only cause of the #channel.

Not a long time ago, irc.webbernet.net decided to run
Guenthi's anti-collide patch (also known as gac). Only as a
fix way for getting rid of abusers.

It only last for about 10 minutes.  Why? because that's how
long it took the admin to figure that it was just not
working.  The amount of traffic generated for a server with
4000 clients was just phenomenal, and caused more harm than
anything else.  And this was not even the latest version of
gac which generates even more traffic (for deops).  My
feeling is that it's enough traffic to cause another small
server to split.

just the facts...

Engerim