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- Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Message-ID: <930121.120252.EST.VALDIS@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.relusr-l
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:02:52 EST
- Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET>
- From: Valdis Kletnieks <VALDIS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Changing /signon options ?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:51:34 MET from <U211610@HNYKUN11>
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- On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:51:34 MET Fred Melssen said:
- >Good suggestion. Maybe the following one is even better: Do not allocote
- >users on any channel at all when they sign on. Only when they choose
- >a channel by themselves they are put on it.
-
- Fred:
-
- Yes, that's an even better suggestion. Unfortunately, there's currently
- some 14,000 lines of code in Relay V2, most of which makes the rather
- rash assumption that a user is always on some channel.
-
- I have a few ideas on how to hack this into working correctly, but there's
- *no* way to do it and be backward compatible. In other words, I have to
- put the support code into V2.07 so the relay doesn't crash, get all the sites
- to upgrade, then release V2.08 that actually allows users to do it.
-
- As for the original query - the reason that /signon fails if ch 1 is full
- is because when I was writing the code, I figured that it would be rather
- confusing for novice users if they did a /signon, and found themselves on
- channel 3 or 4 (which could happen if 1,2, and 3 are all full). Then you'd
- get all the problems of "I did a /names 1, I signed on, and all the users are
- different"...
-
- It's easy enough to code the change if there's sufficient demand for it..
-
- /Valdis
-