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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Fri Feb 23 03:22:01 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>We have a number of users that come from Java clients. As is the nature of
  35 </I>&gt;<i>many java based IRC interfaces they have a &quot;default&quot; nickname and use an
  36 </I>&gt;<i>incrementing numerical suffix to maintain some form of unique nicknames.
  37 </I>[...]
  38 &gt;<i>The problem comes when one of these visitors registers the nickname. E.g.
  39 </I>&gt;<i>JavaGuest. The next JavaGuest coming in with that name will get forcibly
  40 </I>&gt;<i>changed to Guestnnn by Nickserv.
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  42      Since the user should have entered their nickname in the first place,
  43 how is this a problem?
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  45 &gt;<i>NS now seems to correctly prevent the registration of it's own internal
  46 </I>&gt;<i>Guest names and there appears to be an appropriate flag to detect that a
  47 </I>&gt;<i>nick is &quot;guested&quot; so working from this base, I see two possible solutions:
  48 </I>&gt;<i>
  49 </I>&gt;<i>1) [Add a &quot;don't touch&quot; flag for nicks]
  50 </I>&gt;<i>
  51 </I>&gt;<i>2) [Allow extra &quot;guest&quot;-like nick prefixes]
  52 </I>
  53      I'm not particularly fond of either of these ideas; 1), as you point
  54 out, would require it to be set on every possible nick and would have
  55 little use outside this one application, and 2), while more feasible in
  56 terms of maintenance and coding, still would have a very limited range of
  57 uses, and I try to avoid adding features like that.
  58
  59      It occurs to me that a much easier solution would be to just Q:line
  60 the appropriate nick pattern--that way you can force the users to pick
  61 real nicknames without having to modify Services at all.  For example:
  62 &quot;Q::Please choose a nickname for yourself:JavaGuest*&quot;
  63
  64   --Andrew Church
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