> Services are treated like bots with higher privilege A slight correction: Services normally link as a server to the network, which is how they get the higher

> Services are treated like bots with higher privilege A slight correction: Services normally link as a server to the network, which is how they get the higher privilege that they do (because only servers, not clients, get the ability to kill users from the network, etc). And to add to this for others who may be curious: typically there is some special configuration on the IRC server side to allow the link, and some additional configuration to disallow clients from changing their nickname to names like "NickServ", etc (but to still allow the names when a server on the network broadcasts a user with that nick). Normal non-Services IRC bots, on the other hand, connect as regular clients.