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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.