From: htoaster@yabbs
To: xenon@yabbs
Subject: re: Private message scanning
Date: Mon Feb  7 16:02:47 1994
In message Private message scanning, xenon said:
> When skipping over private messages, (like in the E-Mail base), it shows a col-
> umn of p's down the screen like:

i fixed it in the current client.  i also made it so that you could surround
channel names by *'s when leaving channels and it will figure it all out,
so that it didn't confuse anyone.

Here is a tricky question though.  I would like to make it so that you could
use the notation /msg <channel> <message> to send a message to a channel.  
Anyone have any preferred ways of delimiting the channel name (so that it
doesn't get confused with an userid).  Irc has you put a # before the channel
name, but since I haven't done that before it could get confusing.  I could
make the client look and see if you are on a channel with that name, but then
if a channel and a person have the same name there could be some confusion.

Any good ideas?

alex