banning *!*@* has some advantages. When you ban *!*@* from a channel, only voiced and opped people will be able to talk, to change their nicks, and no one will be able to join.
In chans like #class, it's sometimes useful to have that ban enabled. Anyway, if someone wishes to lock a chan, he can +sntmilk and kick everyone. Theres no need to remove the possibility to ban *!*@*. It's up to the manager to choose his ops. And like Isomer said, it's hard to determine what is too wide. I think we should just forget about making changes on banning *!*@*. regards, Hidden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal > I agree.... The ability to ban *!*@* should be either (a) limited to > cservice staff only, or (b) blocked completely to everyone. > In my opinion, 9 times out of 10, a *!*@* ban is considered abusive and > probably used to maliciously lock up the channel. > I don't really see a need to allow anyone to ban *!*@*, so I believe it > should be limited to cservice staff only or totally blocked to everybody. > But, leave the ability to quickly clear the X banlist by unbanning *!*@*. > > > > > Nice idea, but there is one problem. If you have looked at the > > mailingarchive you would see this problem has been discussed before > > and noone seems to care about it. Sounds harsch and is a personal > > opinion. But likely to be a fact. > > Stolen usernames are considered a lack of security on the clients side > > where the user has not put enough efforts into securing his data. Thus > > in case of a compromised client the client is on his own and needs to > > act damn quickly in immediately mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > The problem that accompanies it that this mailbox receives massive > > amounts of mail, so before they read it could take a couple of days. > > > > My opinion is to completly remove the option to be able to use *!*@* > > as kick/ban mask. (Run: you stated you would use it to clean up your > banlist, so it > > would only be needed to UNBAN, no need to use it for BAN/KICK in this > > matter) > > > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >
