Surely it would be best to ban any CTCP version reply that ISNT "mIRC" or "Iroffer" ... for those minority who use *nix in my channel, i wont miss, and that should account for Bottler / who changes ctcp versions, and IRC-Ork..
I'm looking for a script that bans anything except mIRC / Iroffer..
i guess the only real way to keep out non chat clients is to make the chan +R (registerd users only) ir give the chan a +k and advertize the key in the channel topic.
i know this is a old, subject, but as it looks, bottlers are becoming a real problem on alot of networks. Wouldn't it be easier to check against, to set number of channels, lets say in this case..... 30 channels, and do a kick/ban on a set time limit ?
the bbottler can mask the version reply, but the channel listing doesn't lie, so doing a version with maybe a backup of a whois counting the number of channels the user is in, could work.