Message levels (or in short, levels) are used almost everywhere. They describe what kind of messages we're dealing with. Here's a list of them all: CRAP - Can be almost anything MSGS - Private messages PUBLIC - Public messages in channel NOTICES - Notices SNOTES - Server notices CTCPS - CTCP messages ACTIONS - Actions (/me) - usually ORed with PUBLIC or MSGS JOINS - Someone joins a channel PARTS - Someone parts a channel QUITS - Someone quits IRC KICKS - Someone gets kicked from channel MODES - Channel mode is changed TOPICS - Channel topic is changed WALLOPS - Wallop is received INVITES - Invite is received NICKS - Someone changes nick DCC - DCC related messages DCCMSGS - DCC chat messages CLIENTNOTICES - Irssi's notices CLIENTERRORS - Irssi's error messages CLIENTCRAP - Some other messages from Irssi And a few special ones that could be included with the levels above: HILIGHT - Text is highlighted NOHILIGHT - Don't check highlighting for this message NO_ACT - Don't trigger channel activity when printing this message NEVER - Never ignore or log this message