[pollyvw]

Please, please give us the option to disable 'club' chat. Some people are playing bridge while others are broadcasting things in the club chat like...name any song you can think of that has 'bridge' in the title. Very distracting. I know you can disable lobby chat. I've done that. Only option to have this extraneous stuff disappear is to disable all chat, in which case you cannot 'hear' people at your table 'talking.'

[bid_em_up]

You can also mark the ID of the club member sending the message as an enemy then disable chat from enemies. This was how I finally solved the problem.

Not the best solution in the world, but better than nothing.

[1eyedjack]

I think that there is a case for the table host of a *teaching* table to be able to disable club chat and also disable announcements of commencing viewgraph sessions.

[vincenzo]

I can specify what happens for BBO ITALIA (since I am the manager of this club):

1) To become member of BBO ITALIA a player must fill a form placed in www.bboitalia.it web site in which is written that the player accept to receive some time msgs from the CLUB (we always use chat msgs and not mail msgs because chat msgs are are less "stressful" for players (unless we have very inportant msgs to send to our members, but this happens usually not more than 1 time x month);

2) Just members that have filled this form are included as members of BBO ITALIA private clubs;

3) Every player that wants to cancel his registration can send me an email (info@bridgebase.it) and he will soon erased from BBOITALIA private club and will not receive more club messages;

I know that not all private clubs have this behaviour (I usually receive many msgs from private clubs I have never registered). But I think that the best solution is sending to the private club manager a nice msg like "please cancel my name from your private club since I am disturbed from these type of adv".
Did you try this ?
I am sure that every manager of every private club will soon do this since he has no interest to send adv to people that doesn't like to receive them !

I don't think we should involve Fred or Uday in this issue (they have more important things to think about), since there are many possibility to avoid to receive club msgs.



Vincenzo

[jtfanclub]

Vincenzo....

I don't think the question is how to get rid of a club's chat for all time. The question is how to turn off club chat when you're in a team game and need to concentrate, for example.

[boris3161]

Equally, the problem is not official messages from the club - but messages generated within the club and sent to everyone in it using the chat "To Club" facility. The facility is useful for finding players but it would be nice to be able to turn it off when you are playing.

I never have any problem with the occasional "official" message from, for example the BIL, reminding me that a particular lesson or tourney is about to start.

[inquiry]

I may have uncovered the problem here. Playing in master bridge club, we got several "club" chats from people playing at other tables. That is, this chat was unrelated to the normal public and private clubs. There was no way to stop this chat.

That will have to be fixed.