+(defconst riece-laxed-channel-regexp
+ "[+&#!][^\0\7\r\n ,:]*\\(:[^\0\7\r\n ,:]*\\)?")
+
+(defconst riece-laxed-user-regexp
+ "[][\\\\`_^{|}A-Za-z][][\\\\`_^{|}A-Za-z0-9-]*")
+
+(defvar riece-channel-regexp riece-laxed-channel-regexp)
+(defvar riece-user-regexp riece-laxed-user-regexp)
+