A couple things to help out...
First, to prevent someone flooding you from the server with "hello"...
on *:text:hello*:#yourchan: {
if (%flood.hello == $null) {
msg $chan Hello, $nick $+ .
set -u5 %flood.hello 1
}
}
Also, in case you don't know, if you use aliases as mentioned above, then to use them, you type /h or /hl instead of just typing h or hl.