> > bas's suggestion would. My scheme would drop the A server<->server token > > and use the M token instead. A few more bytes than bas's scheme, but the > > advantage would be that everyone everywhere would see that the user is > > away, though they wouldn't be able to see the away message until they did > > a /whois <nick> <nick>
> my suggestion, as i know it, would *not* break HIS, it depends on the > details. just as it is done with the idle time, a normal whois would say > "is away", and a remote whois would say "is away: blah". but for any > away user, there needs to be sent an away token on burst. We will never send away tokens on burst; it would eat too much bandwidth and sendq. (This is the advantage of the +a usermode suggestion--it adds much fewer bytes and no extra lines.) -- Kevin L. Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
