I must say that I do not use the CB, however I have included it in my nodelets for I want to be notified when I receive private messages in my inbox, including (root's) notifications of replies to my posts.

I have searched around but it seems to me that this is a feature of CB. However it is in some sense logically distinct from it. Is there any facility in this sense?

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Re: Q: re CB
by ktross (Deacon) on May 04, 2005 at 13:17 UTC
    Since the OP stated that they do not use the CB, I just thought I'd clarify what artist said. Enter /chatteroff into the text box on the CB and press talk. This will ignore all public messages. To turn public messages back on enter /chatteron.
    update: Your previous state should be remembered if you log out.
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      Thank you for the clarification, but however dumb I actually am, I did understand what it meant, due to the evident meta-command appearance. As I said, thank you in any case...
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Re: Q: re CB
by artist (Parson) on May 04, 2005 at 13:09 UTC
    /chatteroff
    --Artist
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      Thank you so much. Is there any way to enable this by default? (Say, on login)
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        One way is to change your initial bookmark that you use to pull the site up. Add something like this: 

        http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=XXXX&op=message&message=/chatter
+off&message_send=talk

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        Where XXXX is your entry node of choice. Since i keep a permanent cookie, there is no need for me to log on again and again. Personally, i think you should join in the CB fun! >:)

        jeffa

        L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
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Re: Q: re CB
by ysth (Canon) on May 04, 2005 at 18:07 UTC
    /chatteroff should last across logins; it's saved the same way User Settings are. It should continue until you do a /chatteron.

    Also, I'll mention Message Inbox, in case you hadn't found that yet.

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      /chatteroff should last across logins; it's saved the same way User Settings are. It should continue until you do a /chatteron.
      Hmmm, it doesn't seem to be the case. But maybe that depends on some other user setting, and I must admit I didn't search very deeply. I'll do it ASAP.

      Update: it seems that I was utterly wrong, indeed "that" is the case. Still I wonder why I got the impression it was not. With this, I'll add: problem solved!

      Also, I'll mention Message Inbox, in case you hadn't found that yet.
      Well, of course I did find that, and I was thinking of using it as my entry point, but I prefer to go there only if need be, i.e. if there are "new entries" and notification in a nodelet, as with CB (with /chatteroff) is best suited for my needs in this sense.
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