It's been that way forever, AFAIK. -- Jonathan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jonathan Disher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Re: [Patches] [CVS] Module ircu2.10: Change
committed
>
>
> Jonathan Disher wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Kev wrote:
> >
> > > > @@ -120,7 +124,9 @@
> > > > */
> > > >
> > > > #define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHOIS_SERVERNAME
> > > > +#define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHOIS_IDLETIME
> > > > #define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHO_SERVERNAME
> > > > +#define HEAD_IN_SAND_WHO_HOPCOUNT
> > > >
> > > > /* CFV-165 - Hiding Nonessential information from non-opers
> > > > *
> > >
> > > ugh...hiding the idle time? *sob*
> >
> > OK. Hiding the servername, /map, /stats, and such I can understand.
But
> > removing idle time is just being stupid.
> >
> > Don't cross the line from "justified but painful feature removal for a
> > good cause" to "blindly removing everything just because you can".
> >
> > -j
>
> They aren't removing the ability to find out a user's idle time if I
> understand it right - What they are doing is removing the ability to
> ever find a user's idle time by typing:
>
> /whois <nick>
>
> However:
>
> /whois <nick> <nick>
>
> will still tell a user's idle time.
>
> This is so, no matter *what*, nobody can tell what server someone is on.
> If it wasn't done, someone could theoretically (and probably will) load
> bots onto every server, set them to all /whois a user, and then
> whichever one gets the idle time back, they know they are on the same
> server the bot is on.
>
> That's because currently, a whois will tell you the idle time of someone
> if they are local to you, but only whois nick nick will tell you the
> idle time if they are not local.. So just a little deduction and..
> See? :)
>
> You're right though - hopefully too much isn't removed :)
>
> --
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