On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:04:24AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > I'm relatively new to irc. I used it back in about 1995 I use irssi, myself, probably because I haven't tried the epic4 package, maybe. irssi is much quieter than bitchx, with all the status displays making a racket. irssi could still use an easy command to: cat file.txt > #channelname ...without flooding, but it does the job, I guess. Only real annoyance is irssi says your nick every time someone joins the channel, and you mistakenly think someone is addressing you. The first command a person needs to learn is: /ignore #channelname joins parts quits ...to cut down on annoying noise. I had been hacking into the config files to get rid of the user's addresses from being spoken before I learned the command. My LiteTalk synthesizer happily mangles the pronunciation of most nicknames, and it's a bear cursoring up to try to highlight and spell the nickname when the channel's really active. You might get better results with one of the soft synths. I haven't tried that as yet. I just like irssi as it's relatively easy to quiet down, and saves aliases into it's configuration, unlike bitchx, where you have to manually edit a text file from outside the program. Michael
