In my particular use case, I'd like to monitor IRC from within Minecraft, but I don't want my in-game chat to annoy people on IRC who may not even care about minecraft. I'd like a setting in the channel configuration to send chat from IRC to MC, but not the reverse.

On the same topic, a command to manually talk in that IRC channel might be nice. So I can selectively send messages back to IRC from MC if I want to respond to some particular chat in there.

Thanks!

done, in next RB or latest dev build http://voice.monstercraft.org:8080/job/MonsterIRC/112/

Youll have to be a little more specific here. What chat plugin are you using if any? Is it just you wou wants to be able to monitor this channel.

I have a hard time getting behind a feature that I know Herochat 5.5 can already do for you with a little configuration.

So we have a group I'll call 'AMT'. Some AMT people play minecraft, some don't. The ones that do, can join #amtMC and chat back and forth with people in-game. The rest of them are just in #amt. While in game, I'd like to be able to talk to people in #amt, but I don't want every single in-game chat to clutter up #amt. Not using any plugins which modify minecraft chat, but if you say Herochat can do this kind of thing, I'll look into it.

I can also understand you not wanting to put too many features...then you'll end up with something like CraftIRC3 which has a completely insane configuration file (the price of flexibility is complexity).

Yes, you can setup herochat to do this while mimicking the default chat if you want. We actually have 3 different irc channels monitoring different in game chat channels.

I'll set something up in the channel configs for this.. Channel.sendtogame and channel.sendtoirc. Expect this to be in the next RB considering its the only issue right now