Custom Query (1098 matches)

During the entailings of some random luser who decided to message me, I discovered I could be bombarded with blank lines, of which an excerpt is below. Understandably a blank line is still a message in these cases, but I don't feel I need to be spammed like this. Perhaps a setting to limit the maximum number of blank lines in a row, or to strip/ignore blank lines.. of course users still use them to seperate paragraphs in messages, so stripping them completely wouldn't be the best solution I guess, but a limit to consecutive blank lines should be alright.

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OK, so this is a feature request in two parts, I guess. There is a site "freechess.org" aka FICS, that allows you to play chess online. Obviously the chess is beyond the scope of BitlBee, but FICS also has community chat facilities (one-to-one messaging like /msg, as well as many-to-many channels). I'd really like it if BitlBee could do for FICS what it does for IM networks; gate it to an IRC client.

The reason this is a feature request in two parts is that I think a good way to implement this feature would involve modularizing the code for connecting to the various networks. That way, adding support for new chat engines would be much easier in the future.

I am more than willing to help out in any way I can, as far as collecting output samples from FICS and any other "leg work" required. I'm not willing to post my name or email on a public web page (hehe), but if anyone's interested in picking up this feature I'll be watching this bug report and will do my best to contact anyone who updates it.

It would be a great feature if you could access AIM group chats. Since you have MSN chats it must be possible.