>The way it's heading? It seems like you want it to stand still.
In certain areas, yes. This is one of them.
>And the reason for it beeing used in an illegal way isn't
>reason enough for not adding it. Why don't you tell Khaled to
>remove DCC SEND all togheter? Listening to you, it would be
>the only way to go. So it doesn't get bad reputation among
>people that doesn't now anything anyway.
As I explained, this is a marginal thing. We've already got DCC SEND. Removing it won't help things - people will just use an older mIRC. Adding a new sending functionality will encourage more illegal downloads that it will in other areas. The only reason that people seem to be using for XMIT is that it's more efficient. What are the benefits of this efficiency, compared to the costs? Cost: lots of illegal downloads, benefit: slightly faster transfer speed. You do the math.
>This has been said thousand of times - The chance of
> people using a feature in a "bad" way isn't a reason
> enough for not adding it. Why should the "bad" users
> disallow us other to using something that could help us?
Because the feature has more bad than good. Fast file sending over IRC isn't really important, as I've said. There are programs specifically designed for file transfer. Next thing you know you'll be asking for gzip compression before sending.
> It won't hurt you or mIRC!
It will hurt mIRC's reputation.
> At last, mIRC have alot of useless features, that are not
> needed for irc, a better DCC SEND isn't one of them.
I've come across this argument MANY times and it's completely invalid. Just because useless features were put in the past does NOT mean that useless features should continue to be put in to mIRC. Ever heard of the expression 'to learn from your mistakes?'.
