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- From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Supidity of the Lambs !
- Date: 09 Nov 92 19:25:10 GMT
- Organization: Dept. Of Computing, Imperial College of STM, UoL, UK
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- Message-ID: <JRG.92Nov9192510@dove.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- References: <1992Nov6.101014.20872@alf.uib.no> <1992Nov9.122243.15596@ugle.unit.no>
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- In-reply-to: gardabr@unix1's message of 9 Nov 92 12:22:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.122243.15596@ugle.unit.no> gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
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- The logic is, for instance, that only certain people are supposed to have
- op on that channel, some people might ruin it and make a hell of a noise
- this has happend once, and I do not wish a repitition of that.
-
- But if all the people on that channel know who are the people that
- should have op on that channel then what's the problem? After all, if
- there's no-one on the channel then it dies. What's the problem here?
-
- Yes, I know Glurg is on 24 hours a day. This is because some of the
- people I know do not have email capabilities, and Glurg works as a
- communication channel between me and them, as we usually are not there
- at the same time. Yes, I need it.
-
- What's wrong with the already supplied NOTSERV? It already takes care
- of the authentication and other issues. cf. your comments on not
- reinventing the wheel.
-
- James.
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- James Grinter, c/o Dept Of Computing, Imperial College, LONDON, SW7 2BZ.
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