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34 <PRE>on
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17 PM, Jonathan Morton at
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36 >>>><i> Listing linked nicks isn't a good idea,
2 main reasons ... makes it feel
37 </I>>>>><i> like privacy is violated. If you have one of my nicks ... you have all of
38 </I>>>>><i> them ... second, spamming becomes a bit easier, again you have a list of
39 </I>>>>><i> nicks ...
41 </I>>>><i> Uh, maybe you misinterpreted slightly. What I meant was for something like:
43 </I>>>><i> /nickserv LISTLINKS
<nick
>
45 </I>>>><i> which in my case would list something like:
47 </I>>>><i> *** chromatix is Jonathan Morton
48 </I>>>><i> *** chromatix also owns mortonjd, QuadraServ, PowerMac8100ServPro, jon, geek
51 </I>>><i> the above is a list of nicks that can now be used for spamming purposes, I
52 </I>>><i> don't think I missunderstood at all.
54 </I>><i> OK, so how does the spammer get hold of the first nick to get the whole
55 </I>><i> list? Most likely the nick they already have is the only one online at
56 </I>><i> that point in time. Even with that list, all that can happen (in the worst
57 </I>><i> case) is that one person gets multiple copies of the spam. Not
58 </I>><i> particularly useful. From a spammer's point of view, I don't see any
59 </I>><i> information that can be got from this command that can't be got with less
60 </I>><i> effort from other places.
62 </I> I sit in your channel and start at the top of the list ..
64 Also, this issue is most likely the same reason that NSOperListOnly is in
67 It is also my view that no one other than Opers should have any kind of
68 access to a mass list of nicks or channels list.
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