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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Thu Jul 20 13:17:23 PDT 2000</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>I may be wrong, but maybe it's time to redefine linked nicks, their
  35 </I>&gt;<i>benefits, why they even exist and what their future is.
  36 </I>&gt;<i>
  37 </I>&gt;<i>I only use them so that all my memos arrive in the same memo store - this is
  38 </I>&gt;<i>the only thing I (personally) gain from them.
  39 </I>&gt;<i>
  40 </I>&gt;<i>Maybe the benefits of nick linking would be better implemented in separate
  41 </I>&gt;<i>and specific ways - such as memo forwarding, the ability to identify for
  42 </I>&gt;<i>multiple nicknames etc. What are people's thoughts on this?
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  44      The reason I originally implemented linked nicks was for the benefit of
  45 people who regularly use two or more nicks, for one reason or another (I was
  46 given a number of examples at the time, though most of the people I know who
  47 do this just do it for fun).  With linking you don't have to worry about
  48 remembering to identify for your &quot;primary&quot; nick if you use a different one,
  49 and you don't have to switch to a particular nick to read memos as you would
  50 if you used forwarding.
  51
  52      Incidentally, my conceptual basis for linked nicks was hard-linked
  53 files on a Unix system:  Once you link the two filenames [nicks], they are
  54 impossible to tell apart in terms of file contents [nick settings/memos],
  55 and later unlinking one file [nick] from the other will make it a copy of
  56 the original.  (I'd never thought of it before, but this could be used to
  57 make copies of nicks as well--however memos aren't currently copied.)
  58
  59      I guess what the question comes down to now is the old ease-of-use vs.
  60 security problem.  As far as the immediate problem of people gaining ops
  61 through linked nicks and causing problems, the easy response is that the
  62 channel founder needs to choose better ops, but a WHY command seems to me
  63 like the best solution--it essentially solves the security problem without
  64 impacting functionality--and could be implemented with a minimum of effort.
  65
  66   --Andrew Church
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