[TF] IRC macros in TF

[jrh at zeppelin.n. (J. Howard)]

/send PONG %P1 where %P1 was in response to PING :(.*) is what fixed
this.
Ident, et al weren't related to the connection issues.

Phil Pennock <phi...@gl...> writes:
>> ;
>> ; Server things we reply to
>> ;
>> 
>> ; server pings
>> /def -q -ag -p518  -T"irc.irc" -F -F -t'^PING :(([
>> ]|[^ ])+)$' ~ping = \
>>    /send -w PONG %P1
>
> Either this trigger isn't getting run, or the IRC server code is more
> picky about things than the server code that this trigger was tested
> against.  RFC 2812 disallows this particular response.  But the RFCs are
> quite recent and before them IRC was a morass of
> vaguely-working-together lenient protocols.  Things are slowly changing.
>
> Does using "/send -w PONG my.host.name %P1" fix things?
>

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Josh Howard <jr...@ze...>