Umm... if the clients dont see the user parting/joining the channel, how exactly are the on-join spammers going to send them a message.. on join?
GK On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Radium wrote: > Hello, > I had an idea that would help channel operators fight spamming > on their channels. I suggest the addition of a new command CYCLE > that would be available to channel operators only (I know that the > functionnality is "somehow" already included in most scripts.. however > it would be much more efficient at the server level). > > A channel operator that would issue the "/quote CYCLE #channel" > command would be propagated to all servers and each server would > issue a PART, JOIN, and MODE +o command on the server-client > protocol only. Basically, for the servers, the user never left the > channel (thus does not lose the @). The client-server protocol would > not change and for the users on the channel, it would look like a real > PART, JOIN, MODE +o sequence. > > Why? we save some bandwidth on the server-server protocol: no need > to send the PART, JOIN, and MODEs.. and we save as well some > work-load for X, cuz when a user cycle a channel it is normally followed > by an op request to the channel bot or X. > We will eliminate the need for special bots that have been set-up to join-part > channels to find spammers. Actually, it's for the last reason that I > beleive it would be a good addition to ircu. I was thinking of adding a > new bot for that purpose on #quebec, but with this feature, the existing > bot can do the job without any loss of performance. > > Radium >
