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Ad Control version 3.5
www.sydnet.org/pineapples/addons/adcontrol.html

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- [ Installation Instructions ] -

Minimum System Requirements:
mIRC 5.61
486/DX2
Note: If your computer can run mIRC, it can run Ad Control

1. Unzip adcontrol.zip into your mIRC directory
2. Type /load -rs adcontrol35.mrc into any mIRC editbox -OR-
Press alt+r (or goto Tools then Remote) click File, Load and
click on Script, then locate adcontrol35.mrc and click ok.
3. If you get an Initialisation warning, click "Yes" to proceed.

The addon is now loaded! Popups will be placed into your
channel,menubar and status menus. Having trouble? See trouble shooting below or contact the Pineapples Team.

- [ Ad Control 3.5 ] -

Pineapples Ad Control is designed to let you control what notice or message ads you want to block, with logging features, echo features, and a few others.
Note: IT WILL NOT BLOCK THE MSG AD IF THE QUERY WINDOW IS ALREADY OPEN!
              (Sorry for the caps but i must get the point across)
 so dont be like the people who tell me it wouldnt block it, and then when i ask them if they had the query window open with the user before the ad is  displayed, they say yes, Its not a bug its a feature!

also, if they advertised when a dcc chat opened it counted it 
as an ad but couldnt block it (or echo it) right. i made it not block dcc chat ads.
I also made a feature so if they have some lame thing that sends you the same
Ad when you block it and leave the "I have my Website Ad Protection on..."
then it will block the seccond one without sending the 
"I have my Website Ad Protection on..." again.

- [ Troubleshooting ] -

Since this is the first release of this addon using this new
readme.txt style, there is nothing under this section, please contact us (preferably the author) with any problems, they will then be detailed here in the next version. A knowledge base will be available on the website soon.

- [ Author ] -

Drizter of the Pineapples Scripting Team.
Email: drizter@hotmail.com
ICQ: N/A
IRC: Drizter on sydnet.phishy.net:#pineapples

- [ What's new ] -

- 1.0 - (the first version - cant use "whats new" as a heading for this one, 
                             but these are some things it had)
 * the msg ad window closes just after it opens, using /closemsg
 * could view logs in @windows
 * dozens of popups
- 2.0 -
 * it blocked notice ads, and blocking msg 
   ads completely, not opening the query window and then closing it like in 1.0.
   Using on ^*: and halting it before it gets to you.
 * had a folder for the logs
- 3.0 -
 * it has a dialog interface and easier loading
 * puts adcontrol.mrc into AdControl folder
 * Lets Services (ChanServ, MemoServ, NickServ & OperServ) send you notices 
   with channel names etc in them.
- 3.5 -
 * script logo feature
 * colors or no colors
 * new dialog
 * unload and remove features
 * you get a "Recent Ad Detected By [$nick]" echo when they msg you after they
   recieve block msg, so if they say something like "that addon is anoying",
   you will know what they are talking about. 
 * choose whether you want to block notices *or* msgs, previous versions only
   had one control which controlled both notices and msgs.(a feature i shouldve added in 3.0)
 * Added Sharky to services list for Phishynet (irc.phishy.net) users (like me), 
   will check out undernet services some time soon for the next version.

 - To Come -
 these may not be done at all, just some ideas that have been thought up

* A color theme for the message you send when ads are blocked. themes 
 will include things like: black and white, fire, snow, bright, 
 make your own(?) etc
* change %pac.block.(nick) to %pac.block.notice.(nick) or
  %pac.block.msg.(nick)
* Settings in an .ini file rather than variables
* editboxes in dialog which allow you to edit block msgs, ie you could change
  it to "I'm Not Accepting Ads Right Now"
* rather than look for just the "#" symbal, run a few checks, make sure it has text
  on the right side of it and none on the left, see if advertiser is an op on 
  any channels you are oped in (in otherwords, a friend). and make sure you
  arent on the channel advertised, its more likely to be a channel notice
  or something. ie  -Drizter- [Ops of #Pineapples] hi
* Logging - American or Aus Date, 12 hour or 24 hour clock

We take no responsibility for what happens to your computer
through the use of this script, although you have our
guarentee that there are no backdoors in this addon, or 
any critically damaging content.
Please do not rip our work. If you wish to modify it for
person use, you may do so, but if you wish to include it
in your script, please contact the author.

The Pineapples Scripting Team
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Email: pineteam@hotmail.com
IRC: #pineapples on sydnet.phishy.net
WEB: http://www.sydnet.org/pineapples