v_silence

  Setting silence to 1 will turn off shouts, cshouts and channel tells while
you play, examine or observe a game so that communications to you (and words
on your screen) will be less distracting to you.  When you are not playing,
examining or observing a game, you will hear shouts, cshouts and channel tells
again.  Your settings for the shout, cshout and chanoff variables, or channel
settings, will not be affected.

See Also:  channel  cshout  examine  observe  shout  tell  v_chanoff  v_cshout 
v_tell

[Last modified: May 8, 1998 -- Friar]