Re: who-stacking

["Axel Franke" <eule@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From:          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.

Nevertheless it is not logically, if a stack with other commands 
without this limit works, but only the who-command not. No-one coder 
know this, logically this result in bugs.

regards,
Axel Franke