[ blootbot-Feature Requests-1226031 ] Clarify ibot's "addressCharacter in /msg" complaint.

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Feature Requests item #1226031, was opened at 2005-06-23 00:39
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Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Richard Rauch (rkrolib)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Clarify ibot's "addressCharacter in /msg" complaint.

Initial Comment:
I'm a newbie to blootbot.  I wanted to send some
commands to it, and people object of course if I spam a
public channel.  So I use /msg.

I had no idea that the ~ was not a part of the
command.  So I would say something like:

/msg ibot ~ibot

...and would get this as the first part of the response:

*ibot* please don't use the the addressCharacter
when private messaging 


Now, recall that I don't know much of anything
about blootbot/ibot.  While it's not hard to figure out
what "the addressCharacter" is, it is less than clear
how to send the "~ibot" command to ibot in a /msg
without using the ~.

I.e., to me as a newbie, it seemed that ~ was part of
the command, so ibot was whining about something that
seemed inherently required in what I was trying to do.

Probably anyone sending the ~ in a /msg to ibot does
not know, any more than I did, what ibot really wants.
I would suggest clarifying the ibot response in some
way.  Perhaps:

*ibot* The addressCharacter is used in public channel
messages to get ibot's attention.  Please do not use it
in in sending a private message to ibot.  It is not
strictly a part of the command you are trying to use.


(Yeah, that's a little verbose, but most users would
only need to see it once to figure out what ibot was
complaiing about.  Myself, I mostly ignored the current
complaint from ibot because it wasn't clear what to do
about it and ibot seemed to work well enough if the ~
was included anyway.)


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