Re: [feature/rcirc-update] Reconnects don't seem to work anymore

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

>> Fine with me but I'm keen to learn about the use-case where the
>> current behavior is wanted.  I guess there is a use-case because
>> otherwise the IRC server wouldn't have that implemented as-is.
>
> I was thinking about when you want to message a friend who is
> currently marked as away.

"Marked as being away" is different to offline/doesn't exist, right?  So
if I'd "/msg philipk Hello" I'd still want that only philipk receives
the message and not some other user p, ph, phi, or whoever.

>> And IMHO when messaging nickserv or other service bots receiving
>> confidential data, the current behavior is not acceptable.  I'm not sure
>> if the automatic authentication in terms of `rcirc-authinfo' checks if
>> nickserv (or whatever) is actually available and, if not, falls into
>> that trap just as I did by messaging the non-existent NickServ manually.
>
> That is true.  It shouldn't be hard to add a check to ensure this.

Great.

Bye,
Tassilo