But if a service want to know who is delayed or not, and if it is +d, it can't.

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:04:29 +0200
Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:16:52PM +0200, Progs wrote:
> > If I have two servers, AA and AB, with AAAAA and ABAAA on #foo, a +D 
> > channel.
> > AAAAA is delayed on #foo and ABAAA is +d.
> 
> There is no such thing as being 'delayed'.
> In order to know where to send messages, the JOIN is propagated
> to all servers (and services) regardless of the +D.
> It's only that the clients don't get to see the JOIN (yet).
> So, what you mean is that AAAAA only joined so far and didn't
> do anything else yet.
> 
> > There are only AAAAA and ABAAA in #foo.
> > When AAAAA speaks on #foo, ABAAA is +d so AB doesn't receive message,
> 
> which is why +d must be propagated thus.
> 
> > so ABAAA doesn't see AAAAA's join.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > Bug or feature ?:)
> 
> For a service like X/W (what +d was invented for) it makes no difference:
> the JOIN is always sent to the service and all servers.
> 
> For a bot that wants to limit it's own bandwidth by using +d, it makes a
> difference if it's alone on a server or not I guess. +D is meant for VERY 
> large
> happening/channels however... it seems impractical to assume that there
> is such a bot alone on a server in that case. I see no reason to worry
> about this.
> 
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