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14 | <H1>[IRCServices] Services Suggestion - NickServ</H1> | |
15 | <B>Mark Hetherington (Eurocom)</B> | |
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19 | <I>Thu Feb 22 21:50:03 PST 2001</I> | |
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34 | <PRE>We have a number of users that come from Java clients. As is the nature of | |
35 | many java based IRC interfaces they have a "default" nickname and use an | |
36 | incrementing numerical suffix to maintain some form of unique nicknames. A | |
37 | majority of users of this service tend to use the default despite a number | |
38 | of encouragements to choose their own nickname first. It was "interesting" | |
39 | to see how many people actually joined a chat called TypeYourNameHere... | |
40 | hehe. | |
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42 | The problem comes when one of these visitors registers the nickname. E.g. | |
43 | JavaGuest. The next JavaGuest coming in with that name will get forcibly | |
44 | changed to Guestnnn by Nickserv. | |
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46 | NS now seems to correctly prevent the registration of it's own internal | |
47 | Guest names and there appears to be an appropriate flag to detect that a | |
48 | nick is "guested" so working from this base, I see two possible solutions: | |
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50 | 1) The current NS supports suspension and forbidding of nicknames. Add a new | |
51 | state that does not forbid the use of the nickname but forbids registration | |
52 | of it. This however would be limited in application since each name | |
53 | generation by the JavaChat program would have to be set to this status | |
54 | creating a human workload that services is largely designed to remove. | |
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56 | 2) Add in support for multiple user defined "guest" nickname types. This | |
57 | way, anyone whose nick is say JavaChatnnnn could be handled by the same code | |
58 | which handles services native guest names. Although probably easier as a | |
59 | configuration file change (as with the native current guest prefix), a | |
60 | registration mechanism with NS would be preferable. For the purpose of NS | |
61 | processing it could maybe use the new status value described above but | |
62 | merely stores a prefix in the database rather than an explicit nickname and | |
63 | the nick be flagged to be processed as a guest nick type. Maybe a new | |
64 | command /NS REGISTERGUEST <JavaChatPrefix> <PrefixOwnerEmail>. | |
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67 | Mark. | |
68 | CTCP Networks. | |
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