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

[Tassilo Horn]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

Hi Philip,

>> I'm now on 1181c606b3 but still "/msg nickservx test" will message
>> "ickservx test" to the user N on libera.chat.  I'd much prefer if
>> that told me that there is no (online) user nickservx rather than
>> messaging some mostly random stranger.
>
> I can imagine that both use-cases could be of interest, so it would
> probably be best to add a flag to regulate this.

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.

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.

Bye,
Tassilo