Re: marking away users in a different color (away-status tracking)

[Peter Zelezny <zed@xchat.org>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:35:39 +0200 (CEST)
Listar <listar@nl.linux.org> wrote:

> > Currently it gets the information from "WHO #channel", which is sent
> > periodically to the server. On large channels (>300) it is not sent,
> > because it simply takes too long. It also updates the the away-status from
> > a WHOIS reply, if you happen to issue one.
> >
> > There's also code to take advantage of servers that support WHOX, to
> > reduce bandwidth slightly.
> 
> (Resend, the first one doesn't appear to have made it.)

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> I think the general approach is with USERHOST. You specify a dozen or so 
> nicknames per USERHOST line and use the +/- characters in the responses to 
> determine whether they are here or gone.

That's the alternative, but I don't know if I like the idea of sending out 200
USERHOSTs on a channel with 200 users, it seems nicer to just send out 1
WHO. Too bad you can't get this info from /NAMES.


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Peter Zelezny.
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