/LIST is part of the RFC for IRC. The behavior it is to display is pretty well defined and understood by IRC clients.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:49 AM, James Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's a thought:
I wonder about the scalability of /LIST  on todays IRC networks which
have 5000+ channels at a time, it's so unreasonably large that it is
pretty impractical for a human to find anything in /list”

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In the days before the DDOS attacks of some 5 maybe 6 years ago, DALnet had in excess of 30,000 channels, I never had a problem with /list, always found what i was looking for, plus EG:  /list *aus* or /list *chat* etc  filters the channel list somewhat.

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