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Purge a lot of really old and obsolete documents, and merge some together where possible. Lots of efnet docs and the old ircd-ratbox manpage (lol) was purged. Reorganise everything nice and neatly as possible. Things describing features can be found in features/, and some more technical documents were moved to techinical/. Old credits file was consolidated into credits-past.txt, and a reference was added to it in the credits.
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account-notify client capability specification
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Copyright (c) 2010 William Pitcock <nenolod@atheme.org>.
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Unlimited redistribution and modification of this document is allowed
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provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice
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remains in tact.
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The account-notify client capability allows a client to be notified
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when another client's accountname changes. This capability MUST be
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referred to as 'account-notify' at capability negotiation time.
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When enabled, clients will get the ACCOUNT message to designate the
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accountname changes for clients on common channels with them.
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The ACCOUNT message is one of the following:
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:nick!user@host ACCOUNT accountname
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This message represents that the user identified by nick!user@host has
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logged into a new account. The last parameter is the display name of
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that account.
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:nick!user@host ACCOUNT *
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This message represents that the user identified by nick!user@host has
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logged out of their account. As the last parameter is an asterisk, this
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means that an asterisk is not a valid account name (which it is not in P10
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or TS6 or ESVID).
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In order to take full advantage of the ACCOUNT message, WHOX must be
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supported by the ircd. In this case, the appropriate strategy to ensuring
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you always have the accountname to display is to do the following:
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1) Enable the account-notify capability at capability negotiation time during
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the login handshake.
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2) When joining a channel, query the channel using WHO and ensure that you
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include the 'a' format token in your WHOX token request. When you get
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a reply, do appropriate caching.
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3) If the extended-join capability is available, enable it at client capability
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negotiation time during the login handshake, and then set the accountname
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based on what is sent in the extended JOIN command.
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Otherwise, if extended-join is unavailable:
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When new users join a channel that your client does not know the accountname
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for yet, do a WHO query against that client, again including the 'a' format
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token in your WHOX token request field. When you get a reply, do appropriate
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caching.
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4) In the event of a netsplit, the client should query the channel again using
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WHO with the 'a' format token in the WHOX request field.
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5) When the client receives an ACCOUNT message, update the accountname for the
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client in question in your accountname cache.
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