Right now, like most things, we don't deliver these if the client isn't done with the handshake. However, this means that e.g. if the nick in question is taken, the client never hears about it. In the case of pidgin, this causes the handshake to never complete.
Right now, like most things, we don't deliver these if the client isn't done with the handshake. However, this means that e.g. if the nick in question is taken, the client never hears about it. In the case of pidgin, this causes the handshake to never complete.