Re: [Unreal-users] How can I disable message-rate-limiting?

[tabris <ta...@ta...>]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 2:00 am, Eric Mayers wrote:
> I'm using irc (and the unrealirc server) to do some collaboration and
> I've built a bot that runs various commands and dumps some output
> into a channel (10-50 lines per command generally).  The problem is
> that I want the bot to be able to dump data more quickly than is
> occurring.
>
> More specifically, the bot writes 20 lines without delay.  In the
> channel, 5 lines appear almost instantly then the next 15 get doled
> out at what appears to be 1 per second.

	Not including your client/script limiting you (which, for example,=20
irssi does), the best method to handle this probably is to give your=20
bot a limited oper. HOWEVER, I have been told that this is a 'dumb=20
idea' as supposedly there is no such thing as a 'powerless oper' and=20
they're probably at least partly right.

	However, I have found it to be possible to make an oper that has no=20
real flags. Just GH for flags. That's get_host and can_globalnotice.=20
You may want can_setq as well, to prevent users from kicking your bot.=20
As far as I can tell, this oper does NOT allow KILL, KLINE, etc. Thus,=20
in theory, it should be safe.

	An alternative is to consider server-protocol coding and make it into a=20
services-server. But this is not a project for the faint-of-heart.

	Meanwhile, I don't believe that this will prevent excess-floods, but=20
DOES greatly up the limit on how much you can send before getting=20
killed for flooding.

	I'd only recommend this if Chris's suggestions don't work. And of=20
course, the bot would have to be owned by a staffer.
>
> I realize if I write even more (e.g. 100) lines that I get an 'excess
> flood' message and get kicked.  I can handle this limit.
>
> Users are trusted on the server so I'm not really worried about
> flooding (I'm ok modifying the behavior for all users and all
> channels as well).
>
> So my question is : How can I allow this 'user' to write to a channel
> more quickly?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
>
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