Re: safe channel quirks

[antihackrz@xxxxxxxxxxxx (anti hack)]

Kurt Roeckx <Q@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

Is there any reason why '!#' should continue to be supported as if it meant '!!'?  As it, it seems to interfere with a legitimate channel shortname.
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