I must say that this was really poorly put together. The execution was noted but there are many improvements to be made. The timers in your sockopen event aren\'t nessary and rather then using a timer to join a channel use numeric raws ie: \" if ($gettok(%spy_tmp,2,32) == 376) || ($gettok(%spy_tmp,2,32) == 422) {\" put your join event there. As to your sockread event, its really sloppy and could use some trimming. also try using elseif statements rather then if statement after if statement.