Thanks collective!
Since I had to complete the coding urgent, I kept on trying and somehow managed it with a rather lengthy coding. I am yet to try your code, which I will soon. I coded it as follows
menu status,channel {
.-
MsgThem
.Start:{
.set %c.counter 0
.timermsgdem 0 6 msgdem }
.-
.Stop:.timermsgdem off
}
alias msgdem {
.inc %c.counter 1
.set %cs.nick $nick(#,%c.counter)
.msg %cs.nick Welcome!
.halt
}
and it works...Thanks for the replies