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$Id: BANS,v 1.5 2004/01/09 05:56:35 wcc Exp $
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Bans, Invites and Exempts
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Last revised: March 07, 2002
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Bans, Invites, and Exempts
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I assume that you know how bans work on IRC. Eggdrop handles bans,
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exempts and invites in various ways, and this file is intended to help
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clarify how these modes are used within the bot. From here on, 'mode'
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applies to all three modes (bans, exempts, and invites) unless otherwise
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specified. There are three types of modes:
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Global modes These modes will be active on every channel the bot
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monitors. Some will "expire" after a while (be removed
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automatically). Others are considered "permanent" and
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can only be removed by a master.
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Channel modes These modes are active only on one channel, and are almost
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always temporary modes that expire after an hour or so
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(depending on how long you've specified in the config
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file). Usually they're created by a Tcl script of some
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Non-bot modes These are modes that were not placed by the bot. They
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can be removed by anyone on the channel. The other two
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types of modes are protected by the bot (unless the
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channel settings specify otherwise), and have to be
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Bans can also be either sticky or unsticky:
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Sticky These modes are usually set by a user using the ".stick"
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command. Modes with this attribute are attempted to be kept
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active on the channel at all times by the bot, even if the
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channel is set to use dynamic modes. Obviously, if the channel
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isn't set to use dynamic modes, this won't have any effect.
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Un-sticky These modes are the style that Eggdrop sets by default when
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a user uses one of the commands that result in a mode. This
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attribute means that the ban will be removed if using dynamic
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modes after a certain time. If a mode is "sticky" and you wish
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to set it to be "un-sticky", use the ".unstick" command.
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Bans If the channel is supporting dynamic bans, then the ban is
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set when a user with a matching hostmask joins the channel;
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otherwise, the modes are permanently set. On a channel with
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dynamic bans, the ban expires after 'ban-time' minutes (which
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is specified in the config file).
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Exempts If the channel is not supporting dynamic exempts, then they
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are set at all times. Otherwise, the exemption is set when a
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ban is placed whose host includes that covered by the exempt.
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The exempt will remain in place for at least 'exempt-time'
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minutes (defined in config file) or until after the
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corresponding ban has been removed, whichever happens last.
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Invites If the channel does not support dynamic invites, then they
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are set at all times. Otherwise, the invite is set when the
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channel is +i and a user requests an invite into the channel.
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The invite then remains set for 'invite-time' minutes
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(defined in config file) or until the channel goes -i again,
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whichever happens last.
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