irc via telnet, how to auto-pong?

Hello.

I'm using irc via telnet to learn more about the raw protocol. Everything runs smoothly except one thing that I find annoying. I need to reply to ping with pong <message from ping> every time the server requests it, otherwise it will disconnect me (ping timeout). Because of this I can't idle out and need to pay attention to ping requests. I'm trying to find some way to still use telnet normally only to make those pong replies more automatic so I can do something else. I tried googling and asking around on irc channels, but to no success so far. Any ideas? I'm connecting from a *nix server.

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No, it's not 'screen irssi' nor 'tcp dump'
It's 'screen', 'irssi' and 'tcpdump'.
I doubt you use them, your terminal would refuse to do what you want if you typed screen irssi or tcp dump.
You call me a tree humping dumb faggot but you are the one who asks trivial questions, posts stupid follow ups and is generally lost.