/whois online feature now Online

Terry · none Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 28

I like the idea of being able to get online and come to searchirc and do a whois very nice feature.. but with all of most other things some people may disagree and say that it is a invasion of privacy and so forth..

Example: a user gets into a argument with some other person and decides to leave and go to a different network to "get away" the other person can come here and do a /whois and see where he or she went and then cause them more probs....
( some people aren`t smart enough to change there nick )

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

Anyway the person can go on the nets and search /whois himself. This feature will just save time.

It's funny when someone works and makes a great feature, people try to make it look bad and make it closed. grrrr.... :evil:

Terry · none Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 28

I didnt meen to put it down heh i use it myself i think its a great..

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

yep.. im just kidding... ;)

all im saying is instead of thanking Jason, u said it might be bad. ;)
Jason made lots of cool IRC features and ofcourse he did almost everything that u see on this site.

give some credits ;)

ed · Posted: Jul 28, 2003 10:41pm Post subject:

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

Honestly, if you got in a 'fight' with someone, I would think the FIRST thing I would do if I didn't want them to find me (ie I was being stalked) would be to change my nickname.

And if you're having that serious of a problem with someone, I think perhaps a call to law enforcement would be in order also.

moonman · Lurker Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 212

omg overreaction.

hello 911 can you help me XxX-badboi-xXx said i suck and then he went to all the same rooms i'm on in THREE different networks!

iigor · Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Toronto, CA

exactly. ;)

ed · Posted: Jul 29, 2003 4:06pm Post subject:

Terry · none Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 28

that would be the thing to do, although it would probably be embarasing (spell check) me myself i do not think anyone could do anything to me online that would make me wanna run.. i was just using it as a example

keep up the good work :lol:

Guest · Posted: Aug 27, 2003 1:53pm Post subject:

would like you to add blitzed network please..

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

Yeah-I didn't mean call the cops because someone is messing with you, if you are changing nicks and they are still making threats, then its not messing with you, its becoming stalking, and that big of a problem requires an outside force to be reckoned with.

GoaBrains · Guest

The 'global /whois' function is great, but being able to check more networks would be good.

Here's an idea: have an option where one individual network could be tested, possibly chosen from a pop-up menu. Then a 'bot could be sent to the network to check, then come backw ith the results.

Of course, you'd need to display some text on the page that such a custom search could take several minutes for a result (whilst the bot is sent off to the network, loaded, and the check made).

Brains

Jason · Posted: Sep 10, 2003 11:30am Post subject:

Brains, I don't know how likely that is to impliment. I've already had a lot of complaints about the existing system being too slow.

Also I think anything done should be done on a fairly large scale. Checking one network.... well, anyone with an irc client could do the same with a simple /server command :)

Frz · Guest

I like the feature but I'd love to have it for more networks... so an ot question is there any tool wich I could install locally which would go to a lot of irc servers do a whois and give me the result?