Well actually, what you provided for me did in fact work...mostly...or halfly...lol. I wasn't able to auto-ignore his 'on text' response. I don't know if his 'puter or lag time is faster (xp2100 here) or what, but it was a great concept. I actually DID see in the status window, that he was posted to the ignore list, and then the time, (which I even increased to 9 secs.) later I saw the nick removed from ignore list. Either I'm missing something yet again, or it's just not quick enough to catch it. Too bad, I even had my fingers crossed.

Thanks much for the suggestion though.