On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Darren Reed wrote:
> Just to be picky, DCC is typically never initiated automatically and then
> only if the user configures it thus so it is not possible for any single
> machine to make any other do anything. Well, the Unix clients are like this
> (that I've used) and I trust that others haven't been silly enough to make
> DCC work automatically...
>
Bzzzt! mIRC, probably the most widely used client out there, uses DCC
to do some sort of sound stuff. DCC pretty much has the honor of being
the only way to extend the protocol without breaking anything for a client
author. Hence, in all probability, the mIRC author's choice of DCC SOUND
or whatever the subtype is.
Paul
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