Re: !-Channels and the +a Flag

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 06:31:14PM +0100, Christian 'HERZ' Makowski wrote:
> 
> Whatever ... +a Channels are NOT anonymous
> because when it`s opless , ircserver will show who is in the room with their
> Nicknames.
> :: Mode on !2LFZPflirtcafe is +ntra  (Anonymous flag is set)
> -Uni-Stuttgart.DE:!2LFZPflirtcafe- Enforcing channel mode +r (36)
> *** Uni-Stuttgart.DE sets mode: +ooo unhold HERZ Thomi
> 
> Nice Anonymous Channels huh ?

It does give you a warning that it's not "securely" enforced.

Some commands like MODE, KICK and TOPIC will show the nick (and
possbile userhost). Others like JOIN, PART and PRIVMSG will not show it.

It's imo not worth adding kludge/overhead to those commands to be
more anonymous.

Also note that some patch (+topic) might suddenly show who set the topic
even if we would change it so that it showed anonymous to change it.

There is also the problem that if you change it on 1 server, it will still
show on an unpatched (and hacked) servers, because only the local ircd
changes things to anonymous. In server-server protocol, anonymous is not
used.


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