From 400ddb85c62b47c0e58081445afb3795a996a336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dms <dms@c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:29:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - calculated delta time negatively.   fixed undefined value.

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/infobot/code/trunk@609 c11ca15a-4712-0410-83d8-924469b57eb5
---
 blootbot/src/Modules/News.pl | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/blootbot/src/Modules/News.pl b/blootbot/src/Modules/News.pl
index 54e5591..fcf62b9 100644
--- a/blootbot/src/Modules/News.pl
+++ b/blootbot/src/Modules/News.pl
@@ -789,7 +789,10 @@ sub latest {
     if (!$flag) {
 	return unless ($unread);
 
-	if ($::cache{newsTime} - time() < 5) {
+	# just a temporary measure not to flood ourself off the 
+	# network with news until we get global notice() and msg()
+	# throttling.
+	if (time() - ($::cache{newsTime} || 0) < 5) {
 	    &::status("news: not displaying latest notice to $who/$chan.");
 	    return;
 	}
-- 
2.39.5