How do I ignore a user or find out more info about them?

If you click on a chatter's name (on the chatters list on the right), with the RIGHT-hand mouse button, you get a menu. You can do the following things:-

1. Get their identity - this shows what internet connection they are using, for example ras-c5800-1-48-230.dialup.wisc.edu is someone using an internet connection provided by the University of Wiscosin-Madison. If someone mis-behaves in chat, you can get their user info and report them to their Internet Provider, who may be able to take action. If you report someone to us, we really do need this information in order to take action.
2. Ignore them! If they say things you don't like, simply ignore the offending user.
3. Get their version. They may be using the Java Applet (CentralChat Chat 1.0), the superb mIRC by the British programmer Khaled Mardam-Bey, CGI or any other IRC client. If they are using a program like mIRC, they can do a lot more and see a lot more of what goes on behind the scenes compared to Java users.
4. Get their lag time. This is the time for your messages to reach the CC server, then go from the CC server to their computer. A typical lag time is somewhere in between 1 second (very fast) and 7 seconds (very slow). If you and someone else type a message at the exact same point in time, it looks to you as though yours was first, but it looks to them as though they said theirs first!
5. Get their local time. This is the time their computer is set to. It also says the date and time zone. A typical local time response might be "Wed Jul 26 14:37:23 PDT 2000". This means that person's computer is set to the date Wednesday 26 July 2000, and the time 14:37 and 23 seconds, in the time zone PDT.
   The response will depend on what client they're using. Their PC could use either the 24 hour clock or AM and PM.

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