Todd Pederzani writes:
> Fredrik Tolf wrote:
>
> >I agree that it is in a way an interesting thought. However, I would
> >guess that hub owners wouldn't like the bandwidth that's wasted on
> >sending redundant information like that.
> >
> >
>
> If it allows the hub to do partial MyINFO-type broadcasts, the trade-off
> of a little more incoming bandwidth is well worth not having to
> broadcast a typical MyINFO sized packet out to all the users.
That, however, can be solved in a much nicer way, in that case. I
would imagine it to be better in that case to leave the fields that
should not be updated being the empty string, like this:
desc "new nick" "" "" "" 4 ""
Isn't that even better?