Splitting IRC into two?

[Jake]

Shane H. W. Travis wrote:

>Having said that, I agree that it can be annoying, especially when people
>are being inconsiderate of existing conversations. (I find it very annoying
>when someone asks repeated questions 'ssdbot XXXX YYYY bugs' when people are
>trying to talk.) There must be better ways to be doing it.
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IIRC, ssdbot will accept queries such as that in a private /msg and 
return the results in private, it's just that most people don't think to 
do it that way.

>I am not an IRC guru so I don't know what they're called, but I've seen
>messages displayed in such a way that only I can see them (they usually have
>brown text on mIRC, if that helps) when I ask a bot a question in other IRC
>channels, but it's put in the same screen and not a private message. 
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I think that's a /notify type command. The bot probably could be 
modified to do that for certain types of questions.

>Could
>something like this be done for the answers to 'ssdbot ___ ___ bugs'
>questions? Perhaps it could even be done for normal checkin messages, so as
>to provide a way to visually differentiate between conversation and
>bot-messages.
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I kinda like having the checkin messages and bug notifications (bzbot) 
as well as responses to bug ### type statements appear in the chat 
window. I can see some advantage (other than simply having bot in the 
name) to differentiate these messages.