This is about where you cross the lines letting the ircd perform global search and commands. If this is testmask version one and it gets "accepted", perhaps someone will continue pushing the limits on version two by having full nick!u@h, and then version 3 will cover channels aswell.. I`m not again...

TESTMASK is primarily something for opers to use. A bot probably doesn't need to use it. Also, it appears TESTMASK is under a bunch of political bullshit, so it may end up going away (don't quote me on that) Uhm, It would be faster and faster to do a TESTMASK on connecting clients, than to /msg x@s...

Dronemon is a pretty nice thingy. Lost of nice features to catch abusive drones, with the power from regex. Some cool stats from our dronemon; Online for 4 days, 15 hours, 8 mins, 47 secs 2347169 client connections parsed. 11488 clients in memory hash. 25709 client connections auto-klined for nick!u...

With the TESTMASK command in ratbox (and other ircds?) there are no need for tcm/oomon to query xo anymore. Its an oper-only command to see how many clients matching a u@h mask. ie; /quote TESTMASK *@avalonworks.ca Right now, it shows; -!- *@avalonworks.ca 15 0 Local/remote clients match and nothing...