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Re: bug ?

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:28:21 +0100
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> Yes.  But until they do, couldn't xchat treat them as different
> nicks?  If two of them can never be online at once, treating them as
> different nicks surely won't harm efnet, ircnet, etc...

Not easily. Someone would have to put in a server dependant string
comparision function. Too much work to fix something that's not broken in
xchat.

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Peter Zelezny. <zed@xchat.org>
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