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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Wed Jan 17 23:18:50 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, shadow wrote:
  35 </I>&gt;&gt;<i>      This should have been fixed in 4.4.9, but I've changed the algorithm
  36 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> for 4.5.0 to a simple counter, which should ensure uniqueness.  Hopefully
  37 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> I can get a beta of 4.5 out before too long, but for the meantime I
  38 </I>&gt;&gt;<i> suggest not using the guest-nick feature.
  39 </I>&gt;<i>
  40 </I>&gt;<i>This counter makes it easy for somebody to guess the next nick simply by
  41 </I>&gt;<i>looking at nick changes..
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  43      I don't see why that's a problem when you can prevent people from
  44 using said nicks with Q:lines (and if you don't that's your own fault).
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  46   --Andrew Church
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