Over at H2kTV we help people who have never used IRC (Internet Relay Chat) get passed the barrier of installing an IRC client by embedding QuakeNet‘s webchat application. In the flood of IRC beginners this creates there are always people sending the moderators private messages, but then they don’t wait for an answer, because they are in a browser after all, and browsers are always on the move.

So I asked myself, why don’t I have an autoreply script yet? That would explain to them that we are not watching chat 24/7 and they will have to wait a bit if they want an answer. Well that’s almost as easily done as said.

1. Open your remote scripts editor in mIRC (ALT+R).
2. Start a new file (File > New).
3. Copy-paste the code below in the window and customize it to your liking.
4. Save the file with a name you can remember and ‘Save & Exit’ the remote scripts editor.

Download autoreply.mrc
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On *:Open:?:*: {
  msg $nick [AUTOREPLY] Thank you for your message $nick I will read it asap and respond if needed.
  msg $nick [AUTOREPLY] If you close IRC I cannot respond, so please stay online or email me your question instead.
}

Credits go to tv3636 and FordLawnmower for feeding this knowledge to Google.