Quoting Kevin Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joseph Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe someone can run a FAQ Bot in the channel as other channels do. As > > soon as you join, the Bot /msg's you a brief list of commands & > > instructions on how to ask for help or resourced to look for. > > > That would be extremely annoying for people who know how to quit an > unused IRC client. People who camp out in the channel all year wouldn't > be affected by the noisy bot, of course. They would also not "benefit" > from the automated entry message. > > I send back an automated message in response to a /msg. That might > result in a /msg loop from if the bot sends unsolicited messages and > then responds to replies. I know of several other people who have > resorted to sending an auto-response to unsolicited /msg text, so the > bot's designers would have to keep that sort of thing in mind.
I would say that a short precise msg on join would be a great and useful feature. This is ofcourse meant for new users who at least see this once - even if they indeed camp in the channel. Also - keep a !help trigger in the topic at all time and make this spew out the same information. It could even be a private msg to the bot /msg astbot !help and a full set of commands in order to get started. Just links to the wiki and the most common startup documents and what not. And a link to http://www.asteriskdocs.org which personally took me a few days to find... Something along those lines would be a great help to get around the annoyance I seem smell on irc and these lists ;) Being on EFnet for 9+ years and once in #freebsd to mention a channel out of the ordinary... the * community is doing very well - also on irc. But it's certainly a valid point of Mark to make. My 2 eurocents... PS: I wont even get into the whole "snapping at newcomers" because common sense and a little patience will do it in 3-nines of the cases - so let's just behave like adults and we'll be fine :) -- avizion on irc.freenode.org #asterisk _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
