Yes, Brian is right, it was ruled out in the early years of protocol 10
due to high uses of bandwidth. Altho, if you are really interested in
this, it would be pretty easy to modify the ircu to your own liking and
placing a final argument on the end of the burst line between servers.
Regards,
-- notnet
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Brian Steil wrote:
> from what i recall hearing the main reason that's not in the code is the
> bandwidth factor, think of how much it takes just for the net.burst of all
> the nicks, and channels they're in and what not....just think how much more
> it would take to put the topic for every channel in that too.
>
> correct me if i'm wrong...this is what i remember hearing.
>
> -Dawg/Brian Steil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Foster
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:50 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Coder-Com] Probably a dumb question...
> >
> >
> > But is there any way to get the servers to compare eachothers topics and
> > refresh them if one is missing on net.burst?
> >
> > You must have noticed that the topics quite often are seen on one server
> > and not another after netsplits..
> >
> > ?
> >
>
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