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Re: bug ?

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:45:27 +0100
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:

> > > I think xchat got bug with nicks with |nick| and \nick\ on the same
> > > channel I tried to join a 2nd nick of |nick| to same chan as \nick\ and
> > > when i quited |nick|\nick\ had problems reading nicks on the channel and
> > > even itself and i needed to cycle just to update the user list.
> > 
> > You simply CAN NOT connect to an IRC server (let alone join a chan)
> > both with \nick\ and |nick|. In fact, both those nicks are the same
> > nick. As it is stated in rfc2812, section 2.2:
> 
> bahamut (as used by dalnet), probably df, probably unreal, and
> probably more, all ignore this part of the RFC and it is possible to
> have these nicks on the network simultaneously.

That makes interoperability impossible, they really should change this and
conform to the RFC. Undernet, EFnet, IRCnet and GalaxyNet all do it correctly.

-- 
Peter Zelezny. <zed@xchat.org>
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