[Erc-discuss] Re: Flood controll not working?

[Michael Olson]

Andreas Davour <address@hidden> writes:

> I use 5.3 and Ihavce just had an experience that makes me wonder if
> the flood control is working.
>
> Due to clumsy fingers I yanked the whole backlog of the channel I was
> in. Naturally I was kicked for flooding.
>
> When I ran C-c C-f it shows me it has toggled flood control off,
> i.e. is *was* on.
>
> Eh? Why didn't it somehow alert me before dumping that big yank in the
> channel?

Flood control is not supposed to alert you.  What it does is make sure
that you don't get automatically kicked by the server software for
sending too much text within a certain time period -- namely, it sends
what it can safely send, waits a certain amount of time, and then sends
more.

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