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### 3.4 Notices

In busy channels you might not be interested in all the joining, parting, quitting, and renaming that goes on. You can omit those notices using `C-c C-o`.

You can control which notices get omitted via the `rcirc-omit-responses` variable. Here’s an example of how to omit away messages:

    (setq rcirc-omit-responses '("JOIN" "PART" "QUIT" "NICK" "AWAY"))

Notice that these messages will not be omitted if the nick in question has recently been active. After all, you don’t want to continue a conversation with somebody who just left. That’s why `rcirc` checks recent lines in the buffer to figure out if a nick has been active and only omits a message if the nick has not been active. The window `rcirc` considers is controlled by the `rcirc-omit-threshold` variable.