list function

[Rachel Llorenna]

I never mentioned that. I don't know why you're attaching my name to
the suggestion, but don't. I believe that was junk's idea, so you
should comment directly to him/her instead.


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:21:31 -0800, Michael <xeon at xshellr8.com> wrote:
> Rachel, excuse my ignorance, but why would you want to cycle and
> recreate a room every five minutes?
> 
> Michael
> 
> junk wrote:
> 
> > Rachel Llorenna wrote:
> >
> >> If I recall correctly, ircd-hybrid uses the channel creation date to
> >> display channels in LIST output, but most IRC clients rearrange it to
> >> the creator's liking. mIRC, for example, sorts by the number of users,
> >> while other clients do not do any sorting. You can *send* the channel
> >> list entry first, but that doesn't mean that it will be on the top due
> >> to client-side sorting. Your best bet is to perhaps falsify the user
> >> count so that it's much larger (impossibly so) than all the other
> >> channels. There really isn't any easy way to ensure that it always
> >> comes out on the top of channel listings.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:37:18 -0600, junk <junk at boxchat.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> How does the /list function figure the order it is going to display the
> >>> channels?
> >>> Is there a way I can have one channel stay at the top of the /list on
> >>> all of our servers?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Wade
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > I thought that's how it worked, but I have 4 servers running all the
> > same versions of ircd-hybrid(7.0.3). Using the same client (xchat) I
> > can connect to each server and get the channel I would like on top on
> > only two of the servers. The other two servers show the same but
> > different channel on top.
> > BTW,  The channel I want on top is /cycled every five minutes to
> > recreate it.
> >
> >
> 
> 


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Regards,

Rachel Llorenna (frequency)