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

[Lloyd Williams <binary_frog@ntlworld.com>]

On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 07:23, Peter Zelezny wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:35:39 +0200 (CEST)
> > (Resend, the first one doesn't appear to have made it.)
>
> Your post was denied because you arn't subscribed.
>

Ah, not subscribed to my usual 'From:' address.

> > 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.

You can send a batch of nick names on one USERHOST, e.g.:

USERHOST nick1 nick2 nick3

RFC1459 says you can specify up to five nick names. I'm not sure if the 
accepted value varies between IRCDs.

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