[Bug 23005] Room listing for IRC not working

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23005

--- Comment #7 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2011-03-22 06:42:20 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> The normal way to list channels in a dedicated IRC client like irssi is with
> "/list PATTERN", which lists channels matching PATTERN (which is a shell-style
> glob, I think?).

Actually, this isn't how this works: LIST only supports specifying a single
channel name, to get its number of occupants and topic (or an error if it
doesn't exist).

Some, but not all, servers run an ‘alis’ bot that you can query with.

What we should do is what irssi does to selectively enable the “not a good
idea” warning: send LUSERS to the server while connecting, and look at the
RPL_LUSERCHANNELS message in the reply to see how many channels there are. If
that number is over some threshold, don't offer RoomList channels.

Later we could add a way to query; that could be made selectively available by
looking for a user called 'alis', maybe.

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