Question on the IRC...

[Kovy]

How do you set status? (e.g. sleep, Mitte!Mitte!, etc.)
Note that I am using Colloquy on a Mac. Thanks!

 

[starshine]

Type /nick NewName

 

[avery]

most people just change their nicks to reflect their status. to do that, type

/nick Kovalchuck|sleep

...or whatever you'd like to change it too

it's just a few people who actually mark themselves as away -- in my client it turns your name grey in the names list. it doesn't make as much sense to do that since it takes a few minutes to go into effect, and people usually don't notice, so they can't say good-bye to you or welcome you back. and that's no fun. if you'd like to use those commands, though, they're intuitive enough:

/away

and

/back

 

[Martin]

Some clients don't have the /back command and just work with you doing /away again.

 

[recovery]

Some clients don't have the /back command and just work with you doing /away again.

Yeah, that was what I was used to. /back too awhile for me to figure out.

I thought it was for private messaging to people. As it usually says "XYZ is away"

But yeah

/nick UnMarth|MitteMitte

Then, to change it back

/nick UnMarth

Pretty trivial.

 

[Martin]

Unmarth: You see aways in WHOISs and it's messaged when you PM someone while their away, some clients also track it in the userlists.

 

[h3g3l]

On this note ... does the IRC server support the register nick command?

 

[monkster]

Yes it does. You just type:

/msg nickserv register (password) (email)

Nickserv has some other cool features, just

/msg nickserv help

For a list. If you see me on irc, feel free to ask me questions

 

[Martin]

Yes (as monkster said) and I'd highly advise you to do so.