Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Patchou
Ok ok I'm here... doing this kind of thing would only be possible if I improved the plugin API to filter every message that's received but I'm still not sure it would be a security wisedecision... maybe later, I don't know. Auto-responder things are often nice little toys foracouple of days and then are completely useless... Plus! already have auto-messages for statuses, I think it's enough for what most people would want to do with this kind of feature .

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yes patchou i agree that not everyone may use them, indeed for some they will be toys for a few days then theyll lose interest. however i finally figured out how i would use these. i often get links to tournaments from a league on cases ladder called sdladderranks. they constantly annoy me as i got loads of these links daily. now then i would love it if i could setup an auto responder that whenever a hyperlink containing sdladderranks was sent to me it auto closed the convo. now then whats to say that in x months time i might become a td on that league and want to turn this auto responder off. so maybe design this feature so you can set your auto responders but there should be a list of them somewhere that if the tickjbox is ticked the auto responder will be enabled if not ticked its disabled and not used.

you see i could easily identify a link from that tournament league as they all start "http://cgi6.igl.net/tourney/sdladderranks/" then have a tournament number at the end of the link so itd be easy enough. it would just be like a filter for emails. if certain words appear in emails they can be filtered to be other words or filtered out completely they are not security risks so why would this be?