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Private vs Secret

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:47 am
by Oyarsa
I'm trying to remember the differences between these two channel modes. On some servers private channels do show in a list but the topic isnt viewable. This doesnt seem to be the case on Unreal.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:24 am
by Dukat
I made a quick overview:

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Mode    Show in /list   Show /names     Show /topic             Show in /who    Show in /whois
+p      Yes, as *       No              Yes                     No              No
+s      No              No              No (ERR_NOTONCHANNEL)   No              No
(Everything of course only applies if you are not in the same channel... :P )

(The * as channelname on mode +p is kinda strange... but the "RFC-way" would be strange too: "Private channels are listed (without their topics) channel "Prv" unless the client generating the query is actually on that channel.")