Re: [Coder-Com] away not updating on remote servers

[s gibinski]

Isomer wrote:
> > If people set themselves /away multiple times only the first is
> > broadcast to all servers.  If I had my way, we wouldn't broadcast 
/away
> > at all :)
>
Kev wrote:
> I recommend storing the away message locally only, making it only
> available on a /whois <nick> <nick>, and using a user mode (+a) to
> mark the user away remotely.  This should solve our HIS problems
> with away messages.  (Plain away messages also had potential for
> breaking HIS in particular ways.)
> --
> Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
bas wrote:
instead of a umode +a, maybe broadcasting a short fake away string like
"-"? saving on umode chars and hassle... (making the "is away" remote
whois only must be done first anyway)
Wouldn't that still leave HIS broken (since the local server and remote 
server would return different away messages)?

-stephen

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