The unrealircd.org/issued-by message tag communicates who is responsible for issuing the command. For example for a forced nick change due to Services, it will communicate this info in the NICK message. This tag is only sent to IRC Operators and used intra-server (internally). Syntax of the tag ================== unrealircd.org/issued-by=SERVICES:@ unrealircd.org/issued-by=OPER:@: unrealircd.org/issued-by=RPC:@[:optional_extra_login_info] Example lines ============== Forced NICK change by NickServ through SVSNICK server-to-server command: @unrealircd.org/issued-by=SERVICES:NickServ@services.example.net :nick!user@host NICK Guest123456 Forced JOIN to #test by an oper using the SAJOIN command: @unrealircd.org/issued-by=OPER:Oper1@maintest.example.net:OperAccount :nick!user@host JOIN #test Forced MODE change on #test through the admin webpanel via the channel.set_mode call: @unrealircd.org/issued-by=RPC:adminpanel@irc1.example.net:Syzop :irc1.example.net MODE #test +s