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Subject: Re: Question about ICC.

Author: jonathan Baxter

Date: 13:53:03 02/03/99

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On February 03, 1999 at 13:47:14, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On February 03, 1999 at 12:49:37, Inmann Werner wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>Last night, my Engine ran into a computer program on ICC, which again and
>>again played against my engine. After resigning or finishing a game, there
>>always at once started a new game. After about 5 games I shut down my computer,
>>so this was the only chance to stop this. (Sometimes, I also want to sleep!!)
>>Is there any chance to stop this "autoaccept". Is there a chance, that a game
>>only starts, if I accept it manually with "accept".
>
>Don't be open, which you can achieve by typing "set open 0".  I assume you are
>running with WinBoard, if so, this will prevent WinBoard from accepting the
>challenges, since there can't be any if you aren't open.
>
>I don't use WinBoard anymore, but when I did, I hacked it so that there was a
>menu item that turned off "auto-accept".  This wasn't hard to do.
>
>bruce

Just type :

+noplay <offending computer name>

without the angle brackets. Then that computer can't issue challenges to you.

Jon



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