Re: /list restrictions

> Hi,
> 
> I was talking to someone from another IRC network (Mark Rutherford,
> currently in #blitzed as Mark-, of freequest.net if you care) and he
> was telling me about what they did to their /list command to combat
> spambots.
> 
> Basically, they removed it and replaced with with /fqlist.  Their
> current /list just tells people to use /fqlist.  As a result,
> spambots connect and then just go away, because they think there are
> no channels.
> 
> Now, at first, this seems like a really crap thing to do.  Pretty
> annoying to type /list and have it not work.  And IRC is meant to be
> a standard.
> 
> So I got to thinking, what if we made a /blist command that was an
> alias for /list, and then made /list tell people to use /blist *only
> if they weren't using a registered nick*?
> 
> Since no spambots are currently able to register nicks on Blitzed,
> this would put an end to them for a good long while.  Think of it -
> no spambots in any channel!  All those channels that set +R or +s to
> get rid of them woulkd be able to unset these modes, and our /list
> would look bigger than ever before.
> 
> The regular users with registered nicks would not notice any
> difference since /list would continue working as normal.
> 
> Only those few people who refuse to register nicknames would be
> forced to use /blist instead.
> 
> What do you think?
>

I like this idea!

-Erik