This chat applet comes from The Norn Underground, created by Lummox JR. This is his chat and all the text below is copied from his page. Please read and observe the rules and by kind and courteous to the other chatters. If there is a problem, let the op in the room handle it.
I will be on frequently during the weekends and at night time (Pacific, US) due to insomnia. LJR and other *biggies* of the Creatures world will be on fairly often as well.
Guidelines and Netiquette
Unlike ICE chat, this chat does have operators who will, when present, keep things orderly. Go ahead and
chat freely, but just remember that manners count. These are some important things you should know:
- Never scroll. Scrolling is when a person types line after line of garbage, or makes extremely long lines of text which wrap around and take up several lines. Either way, the text scrolls up, making it hard for people to read. For such an offense, an op may kick or gag without warning.
- Please watch the language. Most people are good about this, but it's important. Pretty much anything PG-rated is fine, but true vulgarity is another matter.
- Don't shout constantly. Shouting is when a user types in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
- No stat questions, please. This means things like "How old are you?", "What sex?", "Where do you live?", etc. To a certain extent a question put to someone you know, or done via private message, is all right, but don't ask general "Age/sex everyone?" questions.
- Don't poll. Polling is a question like "If you like dogs press 1"--anything that asks a question of everyone in the room and demands a specific response. Polling is annoying beyond belief.
Commands and how to use them
Most of the commands are similar to the ones used in ICE, but here's the list.
Regular commands
.quit - Leaves the chat. This command isn't necessary to log out.
.join [room] - Joins a room. Unlike in ICE, you cannot create your own rooms--you must join an existing room.
.me [action] - Emote (i.e., "Bob looks around.")
.msg [name(s)] [message] - Send private message; separate names with commas, but no spaces, for multiple messages at once.
.who [room] - See the user list of a room (the current room is the default).
.whois [name] - Get information about a user.
.whereis [name] - Find a user.
.users - See the complete user list.
.rooms - See a list of rooms.
.roominfo [room] - Get information about a room.
.ignore [name]/
.unignore [name] - Ignore/unignore a user. (This is based on IP address, so you can ignore someone for good.)
.ignorelist - See a list of users you are ignoring.
.isignoring [name] - Find out if someone is ignoring you.
.banlist - See a list of banned and kicked addresses.
.isgagged [name] - Find out if you or someone else is gagged.
.keepoutlist - See a list of people who are not allowed in the room.
.iplookup [IP] - Shows a list of users with a given IP address.
.ignorebyip [IP] - Ignores someone with a given IP address.
SysOp/TempOp commands
.kick [name] - Kick a user out of chat temporarily. (TempOps can only kick users in their own room.)
.keepout [name]/.unkeepout [name] - Keep a user out of the room--they are still free to enter other rooms. .unkeepout readmits the user. (TempOps can only keep users out of their own room, temporarily.)
.keepoutbyip [IP] - Keeps a user out by his/her ip.
SysOp-only commands
.gag [name]/.ungag [name]- gags/ungags a user (keeps him/her from speacking, but lets them stay in the room.
.ban [name]/.unban [name] - bans/unbans a user from chat.
.op [name]/.deop [name] - gives a user TempOp status, or revokes
.permroom [room]/ .unpermroom [room] - Creates/removes a room.
.setroom [item]=[value]/.unsetroom [item] - Sets data about the room, such as "Topic=Weather". Rooms that are always permanent can't be modified.
Last updated on: 4/5/99
Contact me at:
mvannort@ix.netcom.com