[Unreal-users] <user> did a /userhost on you

[Jonathan M. <ch...@cy...>]

Hi,
I recently became an oper on a server run on UnrealIRCd, running my 
usual client, Ircle (Macintosh).  Ircle maintains info about users 
on-channel rather more aggressively than most, by performing periodic 
/userhost commands - this returns away status, oper status and 
hostmask info, which may change over time.

However, fellow opers have started complaining about the frequency of 
"*** chromatix did a /userhost on you" messages that appear whenever 
I am around, unless they set themselves -W and lose information about 
/who and /whois requests done on them.  As I can't see any use for 
this message, but can see uses for /who and /whois detection, I did a 
search through the Unreal code and found the following fragment:

if (IsWhois(acptr) && IsOper(sptr))
{
     sendto_one(acptr, ":%s NOTICE %s :*** %s did a /userhost on 
you.", me.name, sptr->name, sptr->name);
}

So, if the target is set +W and the _sender_ is opered, this message 
is sent to the target?  I wonder if that is the correct behaviour, 
never mind whether it's needed...

Any thoughts on my removing this from our copy of Unreal?

Using version 3.0 Morrigan(fix) - both the main server and my test 
machine are running Linux on ix86.
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