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- Synopsis:
- note <command> [&<password>] [+|-<flags>] [<arguments>]
-
- Description:
- NOTE is a sort of turbo-charged messaging system for irc. In short, it
- achieves at the server level what the client attempts to do with MSG
- and NOTIFY. The messaging system resembles modern voice mail systems
- (except in text); messages can be sent, stored, or set for deferred
- delivery. The client notification system works like NOTIFY, except
- with greater accuracy and flexibility.
-
- The most common uses of NOTE are its SPY and SEND functions. SPY is
- similar to NOTIFY, except it can accept a full address to spy on, not
- just a nickname. SEND, as its name implies, sends a note to a user; if
- that user is not currently online, it will be delivered if the user logs
- onto irc within a set time period.
-
- When referring to a particular user, NOTE can deal with the standard
- nick!user@host notation. Wildcards are allowed, and any portion may be
- omitted, so long as the identifier remains unambiguous.
-
- Examples:
- To send a note to Joebob (whose account is jbriggs@drivein.com):
- /note send joebob!jbriggs@drivein.com Hey there! Great movie!
-
- To spy on anyone from blah.com for the next 30 days:
- /note spy +30 *!*@*.blah.com A blah.com user is active
-
- Aliases:
- Most NOTE commands are aliases to NOTE USER with certain flags applied.
-
- See Also:
- msg(1); notice(1); notify(1)
-
- Restrictions:
- NOTE is not available everywhere. It is used primarily on Undernet,
- though even there it is not fully deployed. No servers on EFnet are
- known to support NOTE. There is much debate over whether the usefulness
- of NOTE outweighs its potential for invasion of privacy, to say nothing
- of it requiring enough server resources to make its use prohibitive. A
- discussion of the various NOTE commands is beyond the scope of these
- help files.
-
- Other Notes:
- NOTE was originally developed in 1990 by jarle@stud.cs.uit.no (Wizible
- on irc). Wizible is the authoritative source of information for this
- command.
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