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how to stop message flood by a user?

/ignore nick

that usually helps. On some networks you can also set mode +R on yourself, so only user who are identified for their registered nick can msg you.

Wow - that's a nice response....

just kick the bitch and work with userlevels

hmm. that ain't gonna work. He just wants to stop the flood remember.

but to recognize that this user is flooding me? can script do this automatically?

A giood flood protection addon will. This one is EXTREMELY basic:

Code:

on *:TEXT:*:?: {
  inc -u5 $+(%,text,$nick)
  if ($eval($+(%,text,$nick),2) &gt; 5) ignore -u600 $nick
}

This will simply ignore a user for 10 minutes who has sent more than 5 lines of text to you in 5 seconds time.

Will also ingore someone if they send 1 line at 4 second intervals.

Code:

on *:TEXT:*:[color:red]*[/color]: {
  ; -------------------------------------------------------
  ; Settings
  ;
  var %lines = 4    | ; line count
  var %delay = 5    | ; lines in __ seconds
  var %ignore = 300 | ; seconds to ignore person
  ;
  ; -------------------------------------------------------
  ; Spam Protection
  ; --
  ; Saying several lines of (different) text, in a short
  ; duration of time.
  ;
  /inc -u $+ %delay %msg. [ $+ [ $chan ] $+ [ $nick ] ]
  if (%msg. [ $+ [ $chan ] $+ [ $nick ] ] &gt;= %lines) {
    .ignore -u $+ %delay $address($nick, 11)
    return
  }
  ;
  ; -------------------------------------------------------
  ; Flood protection
  ; --
  ; Repeating the same message in a short duration of time
  ;
  if (%lm. [ $+ [ $chan ] $+ [ $nick ] ] != $1-) {
    /set -u $+ %delay %lm. [ $+ [ $chan ] $+ [ $nick ] ]
  }
  else {
    /inc -u $+ %delay %fld. [ $+ [ $chan ] $+ [ $nick ] ]
    if (%fld. [ $+ [ $chan ] $+ [ $nick ] ]) {
      .ignore -u $+ %delay $address($nick, 11)
      return      
    }
  }
}

this is a little more complicated than yours, but offers a little better protection. instead of just regular message spam, this will catch flooding also. It also will work in the channel, as well as queries, but is easily changed. Depending where you want the protection, change the red * at the top of the code to:

? - Queries
# - Channel
* - Both

That's why I said "EXTREMELY basic"

it's actually not much larger, just that it has a few comments >:P