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  15     <B>Brent DiNicola</B>
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  19     <I>Wed Sep  3 20:49:07 PDT 2003</I>
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  34 <PRE>It wasn't an easy subject to sum up in just a few words.
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  36 I am wanting to do something to the ircservices code, I want to change
  37 the way the notice() works. I know that modifying the send.c would be
  38 very frowned upon and then I got to thinking and had suggested that I
  39 maybe make a module to keep the information for me. I know it's against
  40 the RFC, but I am pressed against a brick wall here, I have to give the users
  41 an option to use PRIVMSG or NOTICE. Now, to help people move to NOTICE
  42 I would like to give them the option of turning on PRIVMSG but have NOTICE
  43 be the default, that would get the lazy people to use NOTICE. Eventually
  44 getting rid of this problem. In the mean time, I was thinking what is the best
  45 way to go about this without causing trouble for me and anyone else who has
  46 to deal with this code. Is it possible or even suggested to make a module that
  47 would replace the notice() from send.c with it's own, leaving the code in
  48 send.c
  49 alone and not causing troubles down the road. Suggestions were that I make a
  50 module that kept the info for each nick's setting and then if I could override
  51 the notice() and notice_lang() and notice_help() in send.c that would keep
  52 all the
  53 other code clean and not cause other troubles. I want to know what the best
  54 way to do this would be, I know it's against RFC but I want to move to newer
  55 services than the 1.4.3pre4 that we are using now and add modules so that I
  56 can do things down the line. They are used to having PRIVMSG and I can't just
  57 change it without running people off, so if I can make PRIVMSG an option
  58 then I can't be blamed if they are lazy. Opinions on how to go about this? I
  59 know this topic has been asked before and I know your not going to make it
  60 part of your code, I just wanted to know from the people who know the code
  61 really well what the best route to take would be to do the least amount of
  62 damage. (And if someone has done this.. please let me know what you did,
  63 examples would rock)
  64
  65 Thanks
  66
  67 Brent
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  72 |<i>               Brent DiNicola                                  |
  73 </I>|<i>           The Whitewolf of Immyrr                     |
  74 </I>|<i>                  &lt;<A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices-coding">elric at elric.net</A>&gt;                             |
  75 </I>|<i>           <A HREF="http://www.melnibone.net">http://www.melnibone.net</A>                      |
  76 </I>|<i>   Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed here are  |
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