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  14    <H1>[IRCServices] auto /msg when connecting?</H1>
  15     <B>Finny Merrill</B>
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  19     <I>Wed Nov 13 21:07:00 PST 2002</I>
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  34 <PRE>On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Russell Garrett wrote:
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  36 &gt;<i> Yes the RFC explicity forbids services /msging users. If your users don't
  37 </I>&gt;<i> read /msgs then that's their problem. I seem to remember a topic about
  38 </I>&gt;<i> this a few months back. It could certainly be done as a services patch,
  39 </I>&gt;<i> but it will definitely not be included in the services distribution (and
  40 </I>&gt;<i> I would usually code a patch, but I feel strongly about this so I'm not
  41 </I>&gt;<i> going to).
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  43 Well the restriction is on sending automatic responses to notices. Bots
  44 and
  45 services CAN use msg, but for messages designed to be read by humans,
  46 NOTICE is best. Still,  this is never getting changed, and you shouldn't
  47 want
  48 it to be either.
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  50 &gt;<i>
  51 </I>&gt;<i> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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