Kick/ban on private message to bot

DrTongue · Post by **DrTongue** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 8:16 pm

Is there a way to set, either in config OR .tcl, the bot to kick someone who is not a user if they private message the bot?

masskilla · Post by **masskilla** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 7:45 pm

Hi..

It's not settable in the config file, but you can write a TCL script for that easily. There are probably some writen already. Check the TCL scripts section.

DrTongue · Post by **DrTongue** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 8:59 am

I've looked through the .tcl files and I've seen .tcl's that will monitor all kinds of channel activities and make the bots kick/ban for all different reasons, but I did not see one that was for or included a private message to the bot. I do not know anything about writting .tcl or else I would do it myself. Can anyone help me?

egghead · Post by **egghead** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 9:59 am

DrTongue, no doubt there are such scripts out there. But based on your initial question, I've made an attempt to write such tcl. You may give it a try...

http://www.geocities.com/eggheadtcl/noprivate.tcl.txt

DrTongue · Post by **DrTongue** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 10:21 am

Great!!! Thank you very much.

EcoSpliff · Post by **EcoSpliff** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 6:19 pm

I'm not really sure why that would come in useful? Maybe if they pvted the bot with a message preceded with "." - but surely not for all messages?

Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 6:42 pm

why do you care about the reasons for this? i can think of at least 2 good reasons for it

DrTongue · Post by **DrTongue** » Wed Feb 20, 2002 11:33 pm

Well there are a few reasons for this, but the main is that it seems more and more lately people are private messaging and NOT chatting in channel, and also I have had an increase in people trying to message bots and trying gain access and/or ops.

EcoSpliff · Post by **EcoSpliff** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 9:33 am

Why don't you just unbind the commands that would allow people to gain access? IDENT for example?

DrTongue · Post by **DrTongue** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 10:01 am

Well, to be completely honest we in the channel are tired of PM that seems to be increasing. We have a LOT of people (mainly from Europe and that part of teh world) that come in, which in itself is no problem everyone from anywhere is welcome, but it seems all the want to do is PM. My question is why would you come into a channel and private message EVERYONE instead of just chatting in channel. We invite everyone to come vist/chat/idle....but most of us just prefer NOT to be PM'd by someone we don't know. We even have a channel greet message asking everyone to please feel free to visit ANYTIME, but no private messages please. But they turn right around and do just that, and yes most understand english, they just choose to ignore the greet message. Many have told me just that themselves. Hence the request for a kick/ban .tcl for the bots. I do not think that no PMing is an unreasonable request, do you?

EcoSpliff · Post by **EcoSpliff** » Thu Feb 21, 2002 10:03 am

Well that obviously changes things, showing an obvious disregard for the request. IF thats the case I see your point