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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:47:00 EST
- Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET>
- From: Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@PSUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Changing /signon options ?
- In-Reply-To: VALDIS AT VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU -- Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:02:52 EST
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- >
- >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
-
-
- one can always setup messages, saying what the position is. eg. if user
- does /signon 1, and if ch 1,2 are full, the relay can send a set of
- messages, "Sorry Ch 1 is full, Trying Ch 2", "Sorry Ch 2 is Full, Trying Ch
- 3" and finally "U are in Ch 3, welcome et al".
-
- this can get nasty if say the user signs on to channel "n" and if all the
- channels "n" to say "n+10" are full, then the user has to go thru all the
- stupid messages, saying that ch n, ch n+1 et al are full, but the
- probability of this happening is _very slim_.
-
- now all we need is to let Valdis do the coding :)
-
- Kumar
-