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Re: safe channel quirks

To: anti hack <antihackrz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: safe channel quirks
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 01:11:04 +0200
Cc: ircd-dev@xxxxxxx, ircd-users@xxxxxxx
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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:58:24PM -0400, anti hack wrote:
> I stumbled on what I think is a quirk in the current ircd.
> 
> afaik, according to the rfc, # is a legal character within a channel name but the safe channel protocol is not handling it properly.  If the first character of a safe channel shortname is '#', the server gets confused and treats it as a prefix instead of a normal chan name character.

It's because it used to be "!#" to create a new channel, which
got changed to "!!", and it now still supports both.


Kurt

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