[dcc2] Comments

[codemastr]

> [1] There is a mechanism on most (all?)  IRCDs that controls flooding
> via a timestamp and the connected user's RecvQ. On Bahamut (and I'm
> reasonably sure that most IRCDs follow a similar or identical
> pattern), you are penalized 2 seconds for every line you send, with an
> extra penalty of 1 second per set of 120 characters excluding the
> first. This means that if you send a line of the max length (somewhat
> less than 512 bytes, I believe it only counts the actual content...
> not the source address and such), you will be penalized 6 seconds.
> Additionally, multitargetting often imposes an extra penalty, but
> often only past a certain number of targets.

The algorithm bahamut (and ircu) uses allows message bursting, therefore,
none of this should be an issue.

-- codemastr