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               MarkP's mIRC Flood Protection - What's New
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Version 3.1 - December 9, 1996

 This version takes advantage of several new features in mIRC 4.7:
 - Warns people who get attention using an excessive number of bold and
   colour codes.  This is just a warning, and floods will be caught the
   normal way.  Note that it is a bad idea to have short temporary bans
   for things such as this, since they can actually interfere with the
   opteration of the flood protection.
 - Now supports nick flood protection on multiple channels.
 - Bans are now faster, with the new $wildsite identifier.
 - A few changes to warning display.
 - Since mIRC now has an options page for CTCP flood protection, this
   is no longer needed here.


Version 3.0 - October 26, 1996

 With all the changes in this version, it has become too dificult to
 support older versions.  Therefore, the old flood protection has not
 been changed.  Please upgrade to mIRC 4.6 to experience all the new
 features.

 - Nick flood is still difficult... so it now only works on one channel,
   which is specified with the setup program.
 - Now offers multiple levels of protection.  After a minor flood is
   detected, a warning notice will be displayed on your status screen,
   but the user will not be kicked.  You can manually kick the user by
   pressing a function key.  If the flood is severe enough, the user
   is kicked automatically.  This is because users were complaining
   that current flood protection scripts can kick when only a minor
   flood occurs, causing embarrasment.  This solves that problem.
 - Now protects using variables instead of the normal use list method.
   This eliminates all possible user list conflicts, while offering
   increased configurability.
 - Users can set the minor and severe flood trigger levels, as well as
   the amount of time before the flood counter is reset.
 - Now uses a WinZip Self-Extracting archive for easy distribution.


Version 2.01 - September 15, 1996

 If you are upgrading from version 2.0, you only have to use events.txt
 (Note the timestamp on each file to indicate the version.)

 - Fixes a secureity hole caused by the new nick flood monitoring
   technique. (whoops)
 - Fixes bug with nick flood protection, caused by a bug in mIRC.
   (It's not my fault. Honest :)  Now, it simply bans the person in
   every channel you're on.  This still has not been tested thoroughly,
   and I expect to find more problems. <sigh>


Version 2.0 - September 2, 1996

 Now requires mIRC 4.6 and above.  For people with older versions of
 mIRC, version 1.2 of the flood protection is included.  This contains
 a few minor enhancements and a bug fix or two over 1.1

 - Nick flood protection now works on any channel, instead of just one.
   Before mIRC 4.52, there was no way to figure out which channel a
   person who changed their nick was on.
 - Protection for non-ops in a channel has been improved, courtesy of
   4.52's advanced scripting features.  When the flood prot is
   triggered on a channel, it will check whether you are an op on that
   channel.  If you're not, it will simply ignore the flooder.
 - New for mIRC 4.6:  completely transparent opteration.  You've waited
   a long time for this one, and now it's finally here.  While you are
   being protected, your status window will not scroll at all.  The
   only time you will be aware that it's working is when the flood
   protection has actually been triggered.
 - Makes use of mIRC 4.6's new flood protection method, which
   completely replaces the old commands.txt.  It was a pain to work
   around existing command scripts, anyway.
 - Nick flood protection no longer kicks from the channel; only bans.
   This is because newer IRC servers (such as those on DALnet) prevent
   people from changing their nicks if they are banned on any channel
   which they are currently on.  Therefore, if they are left on the
   channel, banned, they will not be able to flood any other channels.
 - now keeps track of nick changes seperately from text floods.  This
   will hopefully stop misfires caused when a person changes their nick
   and then starts talking.

  This still uses /ignore instead of /silence, to remain compatible
  with old IRC servers.  This option may be added in the next version.
  (It's easy enough to add yourself, if you really want it.)


Version 1.1 - August 10, 1996

 - initial public release.