On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Vin King <vin.king@gmail.com> wrote:
/LIST is part of the RFC for IRC. The behavior it is to display is pretty well defined and understood by IRC clients.
There are no IETF standards for IRC. There are really no common written standards for IRC accepted by the internet community, only de-facto standards. The only RFC documents available describe how one of the original implementations of IRC worked, and they are outdated in many ways. It would be great if a full-fleshed standard could be developed, and have the technical community consensus required for accepted, but unfortunately, for IRC, that has not happened. IRC clients can handle a lot of things that not all servers will support. Removing /LIST entirely across the board might not be a good strategy, but there's nothing wrong with that approach as far as "standards" are concerned. Faking a blank /LIST and sending the user an error message in the form of a server notice is not a difficult feat... -- -J