###  CHANGES
04/22/01  qirc-1.26
	- Fix bugs in previous releases
	- Ban format changed to free-form wildcard(*,?) format
	  See: game.ban.example
	  
05/14/00  qirc-1.25
	- Fix bugs / clean up

04/16/00  qirc-1.24
	- Fix check_timeout bug which can cause avalanche disconnection
	- Separate timeout cycle time for gameplay and suddendeath/custom
	  This is in turn reduce CPU usage significantly
	- Fix bug which allows a player to perform a switch with dead players 
	- Remove fscanf routine in numerous places and replace with new code
	  to avoid infinite loop bug for notepad-based server runner
	- Ignore csx where x is not 1,2 or 4 in the game with special blocks.
	  Adjust level update detection parameters for cheat/lag
	- Make the program display something when the server start :) to avoid
          newbie confusion of seeing nothing
	- Fix buffer overflow bug in sendwinlist 
	
03/18/00  qirc-1.23
	- Fix buffer overflow in lvprintf() 
	  which happens to all version of tetrix!
	- Fix /who in qirc support
	- Put the support for /quote set in qirc for basic channel settings
	
02/06/00  qirc-1.22
	- Fix bug in level_increase setting reported by gimp/ekn
	- Fix motd bug reported by gimp

01/03/00  qirc-1.21-final

12/05/99  qirc-1.20

        - Spectator support for gtetrinet and tspec is now ready
	- Major code clean up. Create net_playback_send()
	- Rewrite arg part of lvprintf lprintf tprintf net_query_parser()
	  to use a portable vsnprintf. varargs.h style is obsoleted. Also
	  fix the buffer overflow potential due to "vsprintf".
	- Fix various part in spectator support
	- Fix a various minor bugs in irc support
	- Block invalid/corrupt field send by clients
	- This version will obsolete the qirc-0.5x development. qirc-0.5x
	  will no longer be maintained
 
11/07/99  qirc-1.08d *beta release*
	- Fix nick/team name check to better detect invalid nick/team name 
	- Fix spectator support for /move, invalid / command, add /help
	- Fix qirc to be more rfc1459 compliant

10/16/99  qirc-1.06m *experimental*

	- Game play watch (spectators) / playback support for gtetrinet
	  and Tspec. (README.qirc.spectators)
	- New ban format: See examples in ./bin directory. 
	  This makes it possible to handle both hostname and IP.
	- New ban scheme and files: game.(ban, compromise, allow)  
	  Server first checks game.ban (hard banlist) and ban that person
	  immediately.  After a player has logged on (server received
	  team name), server checks game.ban.compromise and game.allow
	  the players will be banned if they are in compromise file but
	  not in game.allow file.  Allow file contains nickname/password
	  which will be allowed as privilledge access. (password = teamname)
	  i.e You can allow just your close AOL friends to play but not
	      other AOL users.
	- To make new ban/allow list take effect you need to go to an irc
	  session and type /quote readaccesslist !!!! (This is to reduce
	  server resource consumption. We don't want to read banfile on
          each player join).  Restart the server would also do it.
	- Add game type "nickonly". Server ignores teamnames when 
	  updating winlist. Players who teamup will not get any points.
	- Fix server did not aware of a color in nickname (report by dynweb)
	- More aggressive cheat detector especially for PURE! Server counts
          no. of pieces drops and analyze it. i.e. you cannot drop only 3
	  pieces in total and add 1 line to all.  This in turn prevents the
	  lag effect from previous game (have you seen someone playing
          previous game while you are playing current game?).  Server
	  detects a bogus message pattern. And detect invalid lvl update
	  which could cause immediate level increase for all players.  
	  To look for a cheater do  "cat game.log |grep Cheating" 
	- Add broadcast message command "/quote wall" to qirc
	- Server now informs qirc clients when a qirc client exits.
	- Optimize server CPU usage in many places.  Also remove most 
	  lvprintf line (Only important events are logged).
	- Fix qirc not to allow same nicknames (irc/player/spectators)
	- Fix a minor tetrix typo which made the channel STATE INGAME
	  even noone is on the channel.
	- Change scoring. Winner get 2or3 points runner-up get 0or1 point
	- Fix unsafe pline command parsing code in original Tetrix.
	- Fix win report on non-playing sockets.
	- Add a small code to make it possible for a client
          to know that this server is a unix server.
			  
03/10/99  qirc-1.05a	

	- Patch against attack using EOL in nick or teamname
	- Block cheater who uses special in PURE channel
	- Support 2 winlists which can be set using winlist_file (1, 2 or -1)
	  where -1 = no score recorded.
	- /winlist #channelname
	- Fix /msg bug suggested by ekn
			  
02/15/99  qirc-1.04     

	- Implement flood control at game start to prevent people 
	  get flooded off
	- Implement new timeout control scheme. Timeout is now reset
	  at net_activity, net_telnet and pline. Each net_t has 2 
	  timeout variables to handle each case.
	- Add wlist_cache variable to net_t to possibly reduce the 
	  winlist update time. Also remove readwinlist() at game start
	  and increase MAXWINLIST to 800. Add net_query_creadwinlist
	- Minor change to net_query_cuserhost and cmode
	- Bound check strcpy() in various places

02/01/99  qirc-1.03

	- Fixed the mysterious access violation bugs =)

01/30/99  qirc-1.02

	- Fix pause thingy.
	- Bound check /topic (net_query_ctopic)
	- Change startgame 0 so that game can be stopped when paused.
	- Change MAXWINLIST to 200. suggested by ekn.

01/28/99  qirc-1.01

	- add nickname to server chat message :) suggested by ekn

01/26/99  qirc-1.0

	- First public release

Any suggestion, please email drslum@tetrinet.org