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[Richard Stallman]

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:04:29 -0700
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   From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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   Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:50:56 -0400

   Do you want this installed?

No.  

There is a control channel that the authentication string must be sent
to when talking to a bitlbee server.  In BitlBee 1.0, the maintainers
switched from using #bitlbee to &bitlbee in order to differentiate it
from normal discussion channels.  Around the same time, rcirc made
this change as well.  This patch reverts back to using #bitlbee, which
is definitly wrong.

There is the problem that a number of people could still be using <1.0
versions of bitlbee, but my thinking was that they are pre-release
versions, and we shouldn't go to great lengths to work with them.
Perhaps the control channel could be pulled out into a defvar.

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   From: Dieter Deyke <address@hidden>
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   Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:38:18 -0600
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   Subject: rcirc fails to authenticate with bitlbee
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   In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
    of 2006-04-20 on DEYKE1
   X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
   configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

   rcirc fails to authenticate with bitlbee.  The error message is:

   08:36 *** 401 &bitlbee Nick does not exist

   The following patch fixes the problem for me:

   *** old-rcirc.el     Sun Apr 23 08:30:37 2006
   - --- new-rcirc.el   Sun Apr 23 08:31:03 2006
   ***************
   *** 2140,2146 ****
                   ((equal method 'bitlbee)
                    (rcirc-send-string
                     process
   !              (concat "PRIVMSG &bitlbee :identify " (car args))))
                   (t
                    (message "No %S authentication method defined"
                             method))))))))
   - --- 2140,2146 ----
                   ((equal method 'bitlbee)
                    (rcirc-send-string
                     process
   !              (concat "PRIVMSG #bitlbee :identify " (car args))))
                   (t
                    (message "No %S authentication method defined"
                             method))))))))

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   Dieter Deyke
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