Use this property sheet to configure a channel's visibility to users, messaging and speaking restrictions, and other characteristics that determine how the channel operates on the server.
This property sheet contains the following options.
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| Visibility | Sets the channel's level of visibility to chat users.
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| No external messages | Blocks messages sent to the channel by non-members. |
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| Echo messages to source | Copies messages back to the originator. |
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| No client message formatting | Prevents the client from displaying the "from alias" prefix in channel conversations. This improves user interaction in channels with gaming or graphical extensions by reducing the processing overhead on the chat server. |
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| Send knock notification message | Notifies a channel host any time a user cannot join a channel. If you think of a channel as a room, the user's attempt to join the channel can be viewed as a knock on the room's door. |
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| Only authenticated members | Blocks everyone except authenticated users from speaking. This option is disabled if Authenticated clients only is selected in the channel's Access property sheet. |
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| Auditorium | Permits non-host members to send messages to, or see, only host members. Host members, however, can see and send messages to non-host members. When Auditorium is selected, only hosts are notified when non-host members join or leave the channel. Consider an online conference held in an auditorium channel. A chat user joining the channel can see only those messages posted by the conference speakers. The speakers, however, can see and send messages to any conference participant (channel member). Only the speakers, as channel hosts, are notified when participants join or leave the channel. Auditorium channels are often used for large chat events. |
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| No whispering | Disables the ability to whisper to one or more members within a channel. A whisper is a private message that a channel member can send to one or more members of the same channel. To whisper, a member uses the IRCX WHISPER command and specifies each recipient by nickname. A whisper is similar to the message a channel member sends using the IRC PRIVMSG command. |
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| Moderated | Sets the default mode for new members to Spectator. A chat user joining a moderated channel cannot post messages to the channel but can see messages posted by the channel hosts. However, a channel host can grant speaking permission to a specific member using the following command:
Moderated channels are often used for small chat events. |
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| Start channel automatically | Starts the persistent channel as though a user had joined it. This allows users running the LIST or LISTX command to see this and other channels that contain members. |
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| Sysop is owner | Grants owner status to sysops who join this channel. |
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| Allow impersonation | Permits a client program to impersonate members in a channel. |
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| Cloneable | Permits a new persistent channel to be created automatically if all current channels with the same base name are full. A cloneable channel is a persistent channel that replicates itself when its member limit is reached. For example, suppose the cloneable channel #TestChan has a member limit of 10. The eleventh user who tries to join #TestChan is placed in a new channel called #TestChan1. The twenty-first user is placed in #TestChan2, and so on. Each clone retains the properties of the original (base) channel. Cloneable channels are useful for maintaining separate discussion groups on the same subject. You can keep the groups manageable by setting the base channel's member limit to a relatively low number, such as 10 or 20. |
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| Only operators can change the topic | Permits only the chat sysop manager or the channel's owner or host to change the channel topic. Chat sysops who join the channel as an owner or a host can also change the topic. |