Comment 2 for bug 509802

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In , Will Thompson (wjt) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> There is a branch for this in idle. It seemed to work when I tried it.

Listing rooms on big IRC servers is a bad idea: you don't get any messages other than the room list until listing finishes. On OFTC and Freenode, when I type '/list' into irssi, it tells me:

  Irssi: Doing this is not a good idea. Add -YES option to command if you really mean it

Not clear what we should do in Idle.