is it possible to ignore only some of a bot's output into a channel?
reddit / irc

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yunisaikuru · 2015-12-02 04:12

let's say i have a bot that, every 10 minutes, posts the current
temperature in the channel. (purely example) i get that some people
won't want a temperature update every 10 minutes, so i'd like to give
them the ability to opt out of it. but, if it's being output to the
channel, is that even possible?

i also heard someone mentioning individually customizable text colors
for a bot. as in, people can say "!mycolour blue" and the bot's text
will output as blue for them

i don't understand how this would work outside of making the bot's
output as a /notice, which i believe depending on your settings cause
the client to beep, flash, or catch your attention in some way, which
would be even more annoying i'm sure

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flotwig · 2015-12-02 04:19

If a client sends a message to a channel, all members of that channel
will see the exact same message. To my knowledge no IRCd allows you to
circumvent this.

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yunisaikuru · 2015-12-02 06:53

that's what i assumed

so the only possibility would be notices i guess?

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ne7split · 2015-12-02 11:28

Yes - notices and a whitelist would be the correct way to do this in
my opinion. Alternatively, the user's who don't  want to receive the
output could ignore the bot.

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Barry_Scotts_Cat · 2015-12-02 17:35

You're best just having the bot, in its own channel doing that.

People who want it, join the channel

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Saber_UK · 2015-12-09 19:22

InspIRCd supports sending messages to people with only a specific
privilege rank by prefixing the channel name with the character for
that privilege e.g. `PRIVMSG @#foo` to only send to ops in #foo.