Re: who-stacking

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 01, Axel Franke wrote:
| It exists already clients/bots the on basis this stacking the code 
| have. In the irc-rfc I found only, that stacking is allowed, but not 
| this limit for the who-command. If such a client/bot to such a server 
| connectet, this code does not work, I think this is a serverbug and 
| not a clientbug.

section 5.8 of RFC 2813 discusses this very briefly and
rather vaguely (on purpose).

such lousy "features" are merely the result of a lousy
implementation of a poorly scalable protocol.  if either of
these were significantly improved, one could get rid of these
limitations.