I think everyone who's been around for a while has at some point had a long private discussion via the Chatterbox - so you probably know how tiring (and error prone) it can be to /msg Screamer every message. I'd like to propose an /msglock some monk command which autoprefixes all your messages with /msg some monk. The chatterbox should also prominently display that it is in private message mode to some monk at the top, waiting for you to issue /msglock with no parameter to loose the lock. While in private message mode, something like /msg - should serve to send messages publicly rather than to the recipient you chose.

Sound good?

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(tye)Re: /msglock ?
by tye (Sage) on May 29, 2002 at 16:19 UTC

    Have you tried Message inbox? There are also external clients that do this type of thing. I'm not much in favor of putting such a feature in the Chatterbox nodelet itself. A separate node makes more sense, though I'm not sure there would be that much advantage over Message inbox. (:

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Re: /ms-glock ?
by jepri (Parson) on May 30, 2002 at 02:04 UTC
    Eeek! Every time I look at your post I see '/MS-Glock'. That's quite a scary thought :)

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