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25.1; ERC ignore function should allow specifying a limited duration

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Message #11 received at 40137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Phil Hagelberg <phil <at> hagelb.org>
Cc: bandali <at> gnu.org, 40137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40137: 25.1; ERC ignore function should allow specifying a
 limited duration
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:25:24 +0200

Phil Hagelberg <phil <at> hagelb.org> writes:

> When using ERC, sometimes you need to /ignore users who are annoying
> you. Rather than having all ignores persist until you manually un-ignore
> them, it would be useful to be able to specify an amount of time after
> which the ignore would expire on its own.

The timeout itself doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to implement,
but I'm not quite sure whether this would actually be useful.  What's
the use-case?  I mean, if a user is annoying, then the user will still
be annoying forever?  Hm...

Anyway, if this were to be implemented, in what format would the timeout
be queried for?  Perhaps hours?

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