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  15     <B>Mark Hetherington (Eurocom)</B>
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  17        TITLE="[IRCServices] Services Suggestion - NickServ">markh at eurodltd.co.uk
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  19     <I>Thu Feb 22 21:50:03 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>We have a number of users that come from Java clients. As is the nature of
  35 many java based IRC interfaces they have a &quot;default&quot; nickname and use an
  36 incrementing numerical suffix to maintain some form of unique nicknames.  A
  37 majority of users of this service tend to use the default despite a number
  38 of encouragements to choose their own nickname first. It was &quot;interesting&quot;
  39 to see how many people actually joined a chat called TypeYourNameHere...
  40 hehe.
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  42 The problem comes when one of these visitors registers the nickname. E.g.
  43 JavaGuest. The next JavaGuest coming in with that name will get forcibly
  44 changed to Guestnnn by Nickserv.
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  46 NS now seems to correctly prevent the registration of it's own internal
  47 Guest names and there appears to be an appropriate flag to detect that a
  48 nick is &quot;guested&quot; so working from this base, I see two possible solutions:
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  50 1) The current NS supports suspension and forbidding of nicknames. Add a new
  51 state that does not forbid the use of the nickname but forbids registration
  52 of it. This however would be limited in application since each name
  53 generation by the JavaChat program would have to be set to this status
  54 creating a human workload that services is largely designed to remove.
  55
  56 2) Add in support for multiple user defined &quot;guest&quot; nickname types. This
  57 way, anyone whose nick is say JavaChatnnnn could be handled by the same code
  58 which handles services native guest names. Although probably easier as a
  59 configuration file change (as with the native current guest prefix), a
  60 registration mechanism with NS would be preferable. For the purpose of NS
  61 processing it could maybe use the new status value described above but
  62 merely stores a prefix in the database rather than an explicit nickname and
  63 the nick be flagged to be processed as a guest nick type. Maybe a new
  64 command /NS REGISTERGUEST &lt;JavaChatPrefix&gt; &lt;PrefixOwnerEmail&gt;.
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  67 Mark.
  68 CTCP Networks.
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