c00kiemon5ter/Pancakes — pull request #2 by MasterEx (2011-12-09 01:00:17+00:00)
Title: IRC Flood Protection

Limit the reply string to 256 bytes.

From the IRC RFC 1459
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>To provide useful 'non-buffered' network IO for clients and servers, each connection is given its own private 'input buffer' in which the results of the most recent read and parsing are kept. A buffer size of 512 bytes is used so as to hold 1 full message, although, this will usually hold several commands. The private buffer is parsed after every read operation for valid messages. When dealing with multiple messages from one client in the buffer, care should be taken in case one happens to cause the client to be 'removed'.
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Other measures could be sleep between the replies.

See http://irssi.org/documentation/manual Flood protection section for more information.