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-rw-r--r--src/common/url.c8
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diff --git a/src/common/url.c b/src/common/url.c
index 9b4e30ad..0f88a35b 100644
--- a/src/common/url.c
+++ b/src/common/url.c
@@ -472,7 +472,15 @@ re_email (void)
 #define NICKDIG "0-9"
 /*	Note for NICKSPE:  \\\\ boils down to a single \ */
 #define NICKSPE	"\\[\\]\\\\`_^{|}"
+#if 0
 #define NICK0 "[" NICKPRE "]?[" NICKLET NICKSPE "]"
+#else
+/* Allow violation of rfc 2812 by allowing digit as first char */
+/* Rationale is that do_an_re() above will anyway look up what */
+/* we find, and that WORD_NICK is the last item in the array */
+/* that do_an_re() runs through. */
+#define NICK0 "[" NICKPRE "]?[" NICKLET NICKDIG NICKSPE "]"
+#endif
 #define NICK1 "[" NICKHYP NICKLET NICKDIG NICKSPE "]*"
 #define NICK	NICK0 NICK1