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.

>>29

>No, it's not 'screen irssi' nor 'tcp dump'
I know the gnu screen and I use irssi every day. Even wrote a plugin for it that changes the encoding of messages sent to the server. (before you start your ecudumacated pseudo-smart talk - recode_out_default_charset doesn't do that).

>I doubt you use them
Because you're a tree humping dumb faggot. What you think doesn't matter to anyone.

>your terminal would refuse to do what you want if you typed screen irssi or tcp dump.

Because you said so. Too bad my terminal doesn't care about you either.

>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.

Not so lost any more. I've learned a lot, even through this stupid flame war. I wonder what your next reply is going to look like... perhaps "you probably don't know how to blind type either!"? Try that line, it may be fun. Don't forget to collect some "evidence". Once you're done with the humping that is.

>>31
Hmmm >>30 is not OP (me), fatty. I doubt anyone cares though.