Forums mIRC Help giving priority to certain users

Greetings all,

Well, it wasn't my intent to start a heated debate, however, I'll distinguish the fire as quickly as I started it...:

In defense of the thread's author, I simply feel bad that a user's request for help suddenly made him look like a criminal. Quite frankly, we could all suspect what he might be transferring, but none of us really know. He simply could be sending MS Word files to another coworker! And quite frankly, it isn't up to us to decide what a user wants to send another user -- unless we're personally involved... i.e. we're the target user or IRC operator enforcing policy.

Furthermore, I don't think it's nice that people post "generic" messages in regards to ethics all over the message board, most especially when it's not even really related to the subject at hand. This particular incident has done nothing but throw the entire thread off topic and upset users who need assistance. (The suggestion of ethics (or any other off topic material) could have very well been done privately where it would not have been obtrusive to the author's message.)

Now, I'll put my soap box away and get back to the orignal request of the thread's author...

I spent some time reading and attempting to brush up on mIRC programming and scripting. I realized how much I learned over three years and how much I forgot. Quite frankly, I don't think I have anything written yet that's worthy of what you need, but I'll work on it as I get more time.

However, if you want to experiment on your own, here are a few tips I've come up with -- mind you, I'm an IRC oldie but still a novice on mIRC scripting... (I'm an "ircle" user by default... I grew up on an Apple Macintosh.)

You can typically throttle transfers with /PDCC and/or /FSEND. Also, /DCC SEND -l <speed> <nickname> <file> might be helpful. The "-l" command switch lets you adjust the file speed. I know that's not much, but I hope it's helpful to you. I rarely use DCC myself, so I never paid much interest on the intricate architecture in mIRC ... as I said in a previous post, check out the Programming/Scripts section. Those folks there could probably give you a boost.

Your best best is the mIRC Help file(s) and you might want to take a look at some pre-made mIRC scripts on the Internet. I caution you, some of these scripts are "junked up" and the authors sometimes be creative and add "backdoors" or other petty malicious items. So, be very careful and examine what the author scripted -- use them at your own risk!

** kevuk25: If you have any additional questions, feel free to zip off a private message so that I can provide you with additional assitance if you need it.

Regards,

John