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When someone is put on ignore, is there a way to automatically send a message telling them they are being ignored when they message you? Thank you!
Gianna

There is but it depends on a couple of things.

1. How do you use IGNORE. Do you just ignore by nickname or by address?
2. Consider that if the other user realises that you are ignoring them, they will find a way to evade it, such as a nickname or ISP change.

This is just a basic script which will only work on nickname ignores. Someone else may have something more powerful. That said, I think that stealth with functions like ignore is a good practice.

If the nick is ignored the script wont even see the message to trigger an on open event.

It's a very bad idea. Consider this, you ignore *@*.someisp.com. Now someone loads 50 clones, each one msging you with a single letter 'a' every 2 seconds. Now that means you are receiving 50 messages every 2 seconds or 25 every second. Now to them, thats no big deal, but when you send back an "I'm ignoring you" 25 times a second, you're gonna get killed with reason Excess Flood. All you are doing by adding such a feature is making it so if someone decides to flood you, they can do more damage than if you didn't have them ignored.

Thank you for the advice.

Thank you for the advice

Thank you for the advice. I hadn't thought of that angle.

I didn't think of it either, actually Nobodi raised a good point too, though it comes back to what I said before about what kind of ignore you use on lamers. There's alot to think about when you automate things - technically such scripts are bots and bots can have alot of hidden traps unless every last detail and scenario is thought of and dealt with as you go along.

Re: codemastr's comment on Excess Flood, my network will k:line people who cop that more than twice in 5 mins. (It stops people with misconfigured scripts rejoining so many rooms that it floods them off over and over) I am sure some other networks have a similar operation. The scenario codemastr raised would certainly trigger this end result. The best way I think is just to let the lamers think you have them off ignore and you are just pretending they don't exist. That way they will bugger off and annoy someone else.

if just wanted to send a message when u add them to ignore i think you can use:
alias ignore {
ignore $1
msg $ial($1).nick You are now being ignored.
}