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1. Introduction

Magick IRC Services are a program that is designed to interface with an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, and offer its users, operators and administrators services such as the ability to register nicknames so they cannot be taken by anyone else, the ability to register channels with pre-defined access lists and kick lists so that channels may not be taken over, the ability to leave offline messages for other users, and many network control mechanisms to stop things like flooding, abusive users, and many other things.

Magick services adhere to RFC 1459, and many variants of it. The changes to the base protocol will not be discussed in this document, as there are too many of them, and so many different distinct protocols around nowadays, however Magick has been designed to cope with them all, with a minimum of fuss (as long as they support services of this nature).

The Magick home page can be found at: http://www.magick.tm

Magick is freely downloadable from: ftp://ftp.magick.tm/pub/magick.tm/Magick-II

The Magick public mailing list is general@magick.tm. Yoy may subscribe to this mailing list at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/magick-general

1.1 Dedication

Magick is dedicated to the memory of PreZ's loving sister, Stacey Louise Elder (1st Jan, 1975 - 25th Feb, 1998). She has been there for me more than anyone over the years, and I was distraught when she died, may her Lord love her as much as I did, and keep her safe like I could not. Merry Parting, Dear Sister.

Magick is also dedicated to the memory of Ungod's brother, Edward Kevin King (28th Aug, 1982 - 21st Nov, 1997), His life was short, but his memory is great, never will those who knew him forget him.

1.2 Authors

Magick is designed and developed by the Magick Development Team devel@magick.tm. Any bugs, feature requests, comments, etc should be directed at this mailing list. The development team is an OPEN team, however certain skills are required to join, not the least of which is the ability to program in C and C++, and to use CVS. To join this team, please e-mail prez@magick.tm for further details.

The Magick Alpha Team alpha@magick.tm test current development versions of Magick, finding not only bugs, but also making sure it is a user friendly and understandable product, so it may be changed at the same time its being designed if needs be (rather than going back and re-writing it). The alpha team is an OPEN testing team, and you may join it by first downloading and installing/setting up the current alpha version of Magick (if you cannot do this on your own, its recommended you do not join the alpha team), and then subscribing to the alpha mailing list at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/magick-alpha

The Magick Beta Team beta@magick.tm test versions of magick that have been through alpha testing, and are in the final phase of development. The beta team's main goal is to find bugs before Magick is released, so they do not get out into the release version of Magick. The beta team is an OPEN testing team, and you may join it by first down- loading and installing/setting up the current beta version of Magick, and subscribing to the beta mailing list at: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/magick-beta

The following people have contributed to the final product of Magick II (testers not included):

Programmers

Designers (some coding)

Supporters

Supporters Who Don't Know It

1.3 Changes

Magick II

Total re-write in C++, so version .0 is merely a 'new feature' list.

Magick I

Renamed to this to avoid conflicting version numbers, etc and finally rid myself of all the excess EsperNet baggage.

Services 3.0

Pre-Services 3.0

Originally, Magick was based on Services 2.2.26, by Andrew Church. As of Magick II, they are no longer based in any way, shape or form on these services.

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