Forums mIRC Help Idle Time

If I am idle, my whois always tells for how long. However, I notice on some othe people, no idle time is given. I have searched for a way to hide my idle time from view, but can't find a command etc. Does anyone know how to get rid of "time idle"?

Hello,

you can prevent from seeing your own idle time, by putting in the following into your remotes:

raw 317:*: halt

Note that this only prevents you from seeing your idle time, it won't prevent others from seeing it.

However, since you say that if you do a whois on other people, and you don't see their idle time, that either means they aren't idle, or that the network/server hides it.

In the latter case your problem is already solved, as you are the only one that can see your idle time, others can't.

Best way is to do a whois on yourself with a clone of yours. That way you will see what others can see when they do a whois. If it turns out that the idle time isn't displayed, then your problem is solved If it turns out that you DO see the idle time when performing the whois on you through a clone of yours, then someone else should assist you. Because I have never seen a feature to hide your whois from others, though I woudln't be surprised if some networks provide such a feature.

Greetz

Short of an option in the server to hide your idle time (some have a usermode that allows this), all users ARE able to see this information.

Due to the nature of IRC, some messages are not sent to all servers, so a remote server has no way to accurately show your idle time. For this reason the idle time only appears from servers displaying WHOIS information for their own clients. So, if you issue a /whois nick for a nickname that is NOT on the same server as you, your server has no idea what the idle time for that nickname is.

When given an extra parameter, /whois takes the format /whois <server> <nick>, where the request for information will be passed to <server>. If you request a /whois from the server a client is connected to, that server should reply with the users idle and signon time. You can also use /whois <nick> <nick> and the ircd will forward the request to the relevant server.

Hope that helps

Thanks for the tip....it solved my problem!!!