From 14d7b62e11715bf485f54e648ca861caed403c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Kurtovic <ben.kurtovic@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 14:02:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] sleep before joining and add a mode() function to Connection:
 thanks DeltaQuad

---
 irc/connection.py | 4 ++++
 irc/frontend.py   | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/irc/connection.py b/irc/connection.py
index 09ac25c..87be572 100644
--- a/irc/connection.py
+++ b/irc/connection.py
@@ -69,3 +69,7 @@ class Connection(object):
     def join(self, chan):
         """join a channel"""
         self.send("JOIN %s" % chan)
+
+    def mode(self, chan, level, msg):
+        """send a mode message"""
+        self.send("MODE %s %s %s" % (chan, level, msg))
diff --git a/irc/frontend.py b/irc/frontend.py
index 391468f..293bc0a 100644
--- a/irc/frontend.py
+++ b/irc/frontend.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
 
 ## Imports
-import re
+import re, time
 
 from config.irc import *
 from config.secure import *
@@ -70,5 +70,6 @@ def main():
             if line[1] == "376":
                 if NS_AUTH: # if we're supposed to auth to nickserv, do that
                     connection.say("NickServ", "IDENTIFY %s %s" % (NS_USER, NS_PASS))
+                time.sleep(3) # sleep for a bit so we don't join channels un-authed
                 for chan in CHANS: # join all of our startup channels
                     connection.join(chan)