[crossfire] channels

[Brendan Lally]

On Saturday 30 Apr 2005 07:18, Mark Wedel wrote:
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        Just because the preference is stored on the client doesn't mean the
     
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      client can't tell the server what its preference is.
     
     
ok, sure, that just means sending the data rather than using the save file. 
However I am unsure how older clients would work then?

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        So for channels, same thing could be done - as part of setting up the
     
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      connection, the client can get the channel listing from the server, and for
     
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      ones it knows about, send back whether it wants to subscribe to those
     
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      channels or not.
     
     
What about the channels created after the client has logged on?