Re: [Coder-Com] usermode +x hostmasking and chanserv X bot bans

2003-08-21 Thread Richard Smith
On Thursday, Aug 21, 2003, at 13:27 Pacific/Auckland, stoney` wrote: Hi, Cservice frowns upon users having multiple usernames. If you suspect someone of using multiple usernames, stop by #cservice to report the infraction. stoney` or better yet, log it and email it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMA

Re: [Coder-Com] problem with my X and my server

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Smith
On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 10:40 Pacific/Auckland, Richard Smith wrote: On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 09:03 Pacific/Auckland, L'archange Eldianel wrote: My server is ircu 2.10.11.04 and my X is CS6.0 ! I hate to point out the obvious, and i hope someone on [EMAIL PROTECTED] really can hel

Re: [Coder-Com] problem with my X and my server

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Smith
On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 09:03 Pacific/Auckland, L'archange Eldianel wrote: My server is ircu 2.10.11.04 and my X is CS6.0 ! I hate to point out the obvious, and i hope someone on [EMAIL PROTECTED] really can help you, but... CS6.0 is not the X that Undernet has EVER used, for help with that

Re: [Coder-Com] Feature request for ircu

2003-06-10 Thread Richard Smith
On Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003, at 12:09 Pacific/Auckland, Gavin Grieve wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 10:00, Tim Ramsey wrote: Frederik Vervaet wrote: Will be abused instantly. For example : users on a shared uni network behind NAT will have same [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus allowing them to collide other

Re: [Coder-Com] user parameter on raws.

2003-03-09 Thread Richard Smith
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Re: [Coder-Com] Fwd: [User-Com] consistency.

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Smith
MAXCHANS: bots should always assume 10 channel on undernet, some servers happen to allow more, and there has been 1 case to my knowledge where a server admin had chosen to only allow 5 channels. But this setting is really up to the server's own administrator. MAXBANS: this has recently been cha

Re: [Coder-Com] Spam

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Smith
> > well a decent e-mail client and a little bit of patience on behalf of the > end user, can easily delete,filter spam. > > i have many filters, annoying as they are to set up, but at least it does > it's job 90-95% of the time. (of course spammers are tricky and that 5-10% > always gets through

Re: [Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread Richard Smith
>> opers that have that much time to offer... And he would need to act during >> the attack, fact that is quite problematic since the pples who are attacked >> aren't online at the moment of the attack. > > how about having in cservice, for each account, the last few logins with > real nick!user@h

Re: [Coder-Com] WHOIS ...

2003-01-05 Thread Richard Smith
> I still have difficulties about the concept of considering the idea of > showing IPs to ops on a channel a security breach, but i heard some > interesting ideas in the few last days... 1. First of all, due to the privacy concerns coder-com really isnt the place for this, it's up to the undernet

Re: [Coder-Com] country in users.undernet.org

2002-11-16 Thread Richard Smith
> cheers nighty > > how about the country thing then? > > perhaps put romaniuhhh or canaduhhh on all of them? > > just kidding =) > > anyway > > - wensu As a New Zealander I can say, sad news is... Like some small ISP's, some countries can't afford it either. -- http://www.mediadesign

Re: [Coder-Com] clearmode and +r

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Smith
OK, my apologies, i did not know there was an oper /clearmode available. i was talking about using /msg x clearmode #channel where unless something has changed that i do not know about, what i have said holds true. -- Regards Richard Smith Media Design School Technician -- http

Re: [Coder-Com] clearmode and +r

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Smith
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 09:51 Pacific/Auckland, The Storm Surfer wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:52:14PM -0500, Kev wrote: Little thing: CLEARMODE doesn't remove channelmode +r ... +r is intentionally left out of the default control string. how come? Perhaps because if you can use

Re: [Coder-Com] +x mode (bug?)

2002-10-17 Thread Richard Smith
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 11:19 am, peter green wrote: > >> however i don't like hidden host at all because it means if you ban a user >> they can just get a new X account and come back. some isp's give users an >> entire subdomain to themselves

Re: [Coder-Com] raw 330 (X username in whois) format changed ?

2002-10-13 Thread Richard Smith
> At 23:34 13/10/2002, you wrote: >> Before we get too carried away, this bug is on the server season`d is on, >> not diemen.*, and it actually looks like someone has specifically hacked >> mesa's code. > > i'd not worry for mesa* if i were you if its bugged > it more than certain than its more t

Re: [Coder-Com] raw 330 (X username in whois) format changed ?

2002-10-13 Thread Richard Smith
Before we get too carried away, this bug is on the server season`d is on, not diemen.*, and it actually looks like someone has specifically hacked mesa's code. mesa.* is using u2.10.11.02 and I tested and confirmed this from elsene.* which is also using u2.10.11.02 and doesn't have this bug. See

Re: [Coder-Com] Unable to start server

2002-09-18 Thread Richard Smith
mmended to run ircd as root, create a special user to run it as, then run it. -- Regards Richard Smith Media Design School Technician -- http://www.mediadesign.school.nz/ CAUTION: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error you must not use,

Re: [Coder-Com] Patch idea.. any thoughts? [restarted]

2002-07-28 Thread Richard Smith
hmmm: Channel has 2000 users in it with, 5 ops 5 voiced Anyone whose anyone knows that if someone were to join that channel from anything less than a dual channel ISDN line (and probably including) is not going to handle the flood of /names, and the ensuing irc clients doing things like /who or

Re: [Coder-Com] Patch idea.. any thoughts?

2002-07-26 Thread Richard Smith
Due to the nature of IRC's client<->server protocol, the join/parts are a must, but because of the server and traffic load, setting (and in particular removing) a channel mode to do this is probably not practical, how about creating a new channel type, that is global (like # and + channels) but is

Re: [Coder-Com] Adduser

2002-06-08 Thread Richard Smith
As inserted: > From: Valcor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:16:51 -0500 > To: Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Adduser > > Hello xplora, > > I'm not a very good coder, and have personally not even attempted

Re: [Coder-Com] Adduser

2002-06-05 Thread Richard Smith
Sorry but CService aren't interested, (I know I've been asking for ages, and I'm on the inside, but you can work around this simply by regularly monitoring /msg x info yourusername), and I am told that X is already being "taxed" to much on login. (although my way around that was simply to add a s

Re: [Coder-Com] level 500 command proposal

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Smith
Regarding *!*@*.* see Isomer's email. There IS enough security. Regarding what to do when your username is hacked on undernet... First, go to http://cservice.undernet.org/live/ login (if you still can) and change your password, if you cannot login, use forgotten password (link both in side bar a

Re: [Coder-Com] Banlist

2002-04-29 Thread Richard Smith
on 30/4/02 08:50, éL NìçoS at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Coders, > > I also have a suggestion. Large channels often deal with floods. Most off > those large channels prefer to put two or three eggdrops online to protect > themselves against the floodhosts. On most off these channels the banlis

[Coder-Com] last modified: processing \n in nicks

2002-04-28 Thread Richard Smith
"last modified:" in the user lists and ban lists is letting \'s in the nick!user@host (usually just the nick where nicks can have \'s in them) be processed (ie \n is cutting off the rest of the line, most other variations are at least hiding the \ and code attached) -- xplora @ undernet

Re: [Coder-Com] Ban/Kill with fingerprint

2002-04-18 Thread Richard Smith
on 18/4/02 06:15, Chojin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Chris Crowther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Chojin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Ban/Kill with fingerprint > > >> On

Re: [Coder-Com] I have a problem with ircu.

2002-04-16 Thread Richard Smith
the email. Note: Unless stated this email does not represent Media Design School Ltd. > From: Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:05:07 +1200 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] I have a problem with ircu. > > this is 2.10.11

Re: [Coder-Com] I have a problem with ircu.

2002-04-16 Thread Richard Smith
this is 2.10.11 latest beta on MacOS X after doing make cc -g -O3 -pipe -I. -I.. -I../include -c ircd.c -o ircd.o ircd.c:455: illegal expression, found `)' cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in basic mode ircd.c: In function `parse_command_line': ircd.c:455: parse

Re: [Coder-Com] FW: X's unban... is that a bug?

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Smith
this has not changed since the old X... you have enough access to remove the ban on the channel but not enough access to remove the ban in X, result, X removes the channel, but notify's you that you cannot remove the ban in X. -- Richard T Smith - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technician, Media Design Schoo

Re: [Coder-Com] 439's

2001-11-30 Thread Richard Smith
20 in 2 minutes (it's the privmsg/notice too many targets). question has to be tho, why are you creating a "cyclebot"... reason i say this is while i can think of and know of a few reasons to do this, i should also warn you that mass-advertising is not allowed or liked on undernet, and all inform

Re: [Coder-Com] putquick

2001-11-03 Thread Richard Smith
1. it is a very bad idea (as already stated in the other replies) to have the server disable it's built in flood protection. 2. putquick is a tcl command used by an eggdrop bot, if you are outputting notices, that are 10 lines long you are more likely to flood the bot off, than get the message th

Re: [Coder-Com] About suspension, and how to override it.

2001-09-27 Thread Richard Smith
best way to handle would require a way of detaching the suspension from access list, that way if the access is removed then re-added the suspension remains (probably require a separate suspension table that would mimic the access list except only have entries for actual suspensions) -- xplora is

Re: [Coder-Com] Logout

2001-09-23 Thread Richard Smith
and the number of reasons why there isn't one out number the reason for 1 by 50 to 1, and they all pertain to abusing X. wish we could have it, but it is just not a good idea. -- xplora is wakco (Richard T Smith) yeehaa, doggy... b44w00f [EMAIL PROTECTED], Official CService Admin, Undernet Cha

Re: [Coder-Com] +ei modes

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Smith
NewNet (i think is the one, i'm sure its some NNet irc network) is the only IRC network those RFC's actually refer to, and none OTHER (that i know of, unless they are specifically using that networks server code). I suggest you write the creator of those RFC's to find out where to get the server c

Re: [Coder-Com] a suggestion for a new X feature and a featurefor Bots

2001-06-19 Thread Richard Smith
this would be better sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] do not decide on anything you are asking about, they only implement that which is asked for in the server's by the Server admins, with a select few implementing in X what CService asks for. considering invite only lets you invite y

Re: [Coder-Com] New GNUWorld Web Interface

2001-06-15 Thread Richard Smith
no. http://cservice.undernet.org/live/ uses php3 -- Richard T Smith (aka xplora or wakco on Undernet IRC Network) Technician, Media Design School Official CService Admin, Undernet Channel Service Committee Work: [EMAIL

Re: [Coder-Com] CNOTICE and CPRIVMSG

2001-05-06 Thread Richard Smith
... and that would account for internet congestion how? -- Richard T Smith (aka xplora or wakco on Undernet IRC Network) Technician, Media Design School Official CService Admin, Undernet Channel Service Committee Work: