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irc has kicking / banning and kickbanning.. not necessarily booting (unless you used it as lingo) and certainly not HTML parsing.
by iamtheworstdev 7y ago
irc has kicking / banning and kickbanning.. not necessarily booting (unless you used it as lingo) and certainly not HTML parsing.
- papageek 7y ago/ping +++ATH0
- kabdib 7y agoThere's supposed to be a delay in the Hayes protocol to prevent this kind of thing, but many "Hayes compatible" implementations didn't implement that part (through ignorance? working around a patent?), so this trick would work pretty well . . .
- LocalH 7y agoPatent issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Independent_Escape_Sequen... Hayes themselves would even insert the sequence in press releases posted to Usenet. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.dcom.modems/Vr2aXl8jU6g https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.dcom.modems/Vr2...
- danielhlockard 7y agoIRC totally did have "booters" back in the old day, that would cause mass disconnects.