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- From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.224452.163@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:44:52 GMT
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- In article <avalon.712334082@coombs> avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
- >frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
- >>BTW.. if you were to ask me if we needed NickServ, or NoteServ, I'd say they
- >>could go away and it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
- >Maybe, but Nickserv does more than 'reserve' nicks.
- >The best feature I find is doing "whois <nick>" on NickServ and getting
-
- Yes yes.. I knew I should have clarified this. As a database nickserv is
- useful. However since I have to tell people MANY MANY MANY more times that
- nicknames are NOT fucking owned in spite of what nickserv implies it just
- ends up getting on my nevers after a while. If I ran nickserv I think I'd
- add an option to make a chosen nickname unregisterable. Meaning, anyone
- could use it and not get harrased by nickserv but it might still have
- the database information, or it might just be blank. I'd use it on
- such names as 'root' and 'irc'.
-
- So, even with the usefulness of the database, I have to say that I'd probably
- be happier without nickserv to confuse the world.
-
- ian
-