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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:50:44 CST
- Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET>
- From: "Jim Glover (Key), Relay Op" <SPJRG@LATECH.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Changing /signon options ?
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- >For example, I'm usually on one channel, which is a fairly random
- >number. I have NEVER seen anyone else on that channel unless they are
- >a friend or I /invited them.
-
- Everything I'm saying about this becomes obsolete when the new version
- of Relay comes out, but until *everyone* is using it, this "old way"
- of doing things still applies, that is...
-
- If you are a "general class" (class 3) user, and can use *huge* channel
- numbers, you can get away with your line of thinking, but then again,
- not if you use a channel number like "7654321" or something else with
- an obvious pattern. It simply is not acceptable to pop in without an
- invitation on 100-999 (with the only exception being channels like 333
- or 561, often used by many). In the last year or so, I've both found the
- channel I was used to thinking of as "mine" (which was 832 until someone
- else started using that one quite a bit) occuppied, and I've had people
- /signon to that channel, or other private channels, uninvited. It's
- simply not acceptable to shrug the whole thing off by saying, "Well, as
- long as I only occasionally violate someone's privacy, that's OK."
- It's not.
-
- When the new version of Relay is universally available, with its "semi-
- private" and "private" distinction, it won't be possible for a user to
- do things they shouldn't (*grin* ...well, at least not with respect to
- signing on private channels). But until the time comes that everyone has
- access to the new version, it is at least a serious violation of Relay
- etiquette to /signon or /ch to channels 100-999 without an invitation,
- or without checking first to confirm that the channel is, in fact, empty.
-
- >BTW, what is IRC??
-
- IRC is the Internet version of Relay. To use it, you must have an account
- on a system which is on Internet, and which has an "IRC server". (Also,
- there are sites you can Telnet to which allow limited IRC access.) IRC
- has no equivalent to Relay's ops. But one concept IRC does have which has
- been hinted at here recently is the concept of a "channel op" who controls
- access to and some of the behavior of a channel (s)he has created, or has
- been granted control of.
- --Jim (Key)
-