Join/leave messages make chatrooms with many members almost unreadable

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

When joining a large Chat-Room (such as #ubuntu or #ubuntu-release-party) the discussion gets totally bogged down by the join leave messages.

So if more than 1000 members are in a chatroom sometimes more than 7 of 10 messages are just join/leave which leaves much less room to the already fast moving conversation and makes it very difficult to follow it.

Other irc-clients have a sort of conference mode for this, so that if a room contains more than N members, they stop showing the join/leave messages. I'd like that. :)

Good numbers for N could be either 10, 30 or 60 members, though that could also be determined empirically, that is the number of members to a chatroom when the join / leave messages start to get more on the nerves than they are useful.

:) Martin

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 22 09:22:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xchat-gnome
Package: xchat-gnome 1:0.16-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: xchat-gnome
ProcCwd: /home/dwt
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xchat-gnome
Uname: Linux dwts-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux