From: htoaster@yabbs
To: dmonger@yabbs
Subject: re: the <> prob
Date: Fri Aug 12 19:13:38 1994
In message re: the <> prob, dmonger said:
> actually it might not be a bad idea (though a bit late) to 
> outlaw some of the special characters so they can be used in talk commands
> for the text client 
> 
> since it would be very nice to do:
> 
> /msg {dmonger htoaster} whee this is fun 
> 
> and have it to go to both people

well, i'm going to be weeding out old accounts soon anyhow...it wouldn't be
hard to kill everyone with invalid charaters in their names too...

any characters people would like to see gone?  so far the list will probably
be: \ / # { } < >

# will be used in future clients to send messages to channels (is this just
a little to irc like sometimes?) ... / is already illegal, \ is nice to make
illegal for people on winnt or os/2 systems who might run the server (can't be 
done yet, but who knows down the road) ... the others are just nice characters
for making sets...

alex