Automatically ignore users with +B flag

[docwhat]

The +B flag designates a user as a Bot. Bots should be ignored to prevent accidental spamming and loops.

[docwhat]

I accidentally opened this as litaio/lita#108 by mistake

[simmel]

Which IRC networks supports this? I tried the top 5 IRC networks and neither had support for the +B flag.

[docwhat]

I'm not sure about networks. It's a plugin or option on most of the top irc server software. I checked on unrealircd and inspircd, etc.

I know knows lot of enterprise and project networks (non public) that use this.

Its helpful both for admins and for bots recognizing each other to prevent accidental bot storms.

There may be different permissions, like allowing faster or more messages per second. Or the motd may be different.

[simmel]

I saw that unrealircd supported it too. Yeah, that's what I could gather from it too. AFAIK when connecting the IRC server responds to which modes it supports so it should be possible to be selective about when to use it. Since not even the most popular networks support this I think this has a low priority. I might provide an PR not not in the forseeable future. This new feature should also make Lita +B if the server supports it.

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On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 16:52:27 -0800, Christian Höltje wrote: I'm not sure about networks. It's a plugin or option on most of the top irc server software. I checked on unrealircd and inspircd, etc. I know knows lot of enterprise and project networks (non public) that use this. Its helpful both for admins and for bots recognizing each other to prevent accidental bot storms. There may be different permissions, like allowing faster or more messages per second. Or the motd may be different. -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #12 (comment)