/massidle: how to return idle times for all users in a channel?

Hello,

I'm trying to come up with an erc-cmd-MASSIDLE command, which returns  
idle times of all users in a channel that I operate, regardless of  
whether we're on the same server.  However, I'm quite new to elisp and  
need some advice.  I'm hampered by two difficulties:

1. /whois and /idle only take single nick arguments...

2. If the user is on another server, I have to run /whois nick nick to  
get their idle time, I can't use /idle.

I thought of adapting Sebastian Freundt's erc-cmd-MASSOP code, but  
because both /whois and /idle only take single nicks, the following  
doesn't work:

(defun erc-cmd-MASSIDLE (&rest ignore)
   (setq reason (mapconcat #'identity reason " "))
   (let ((hash-table erc-channel-users)
         users)
     (maphash (lambda (k v)
                (unless (equal k erc-nick)
                  (add-to-list 'users k)))
              hash-table)
     (eval `(erc-cmd-IDLE ,@users))))
I'm using ERC v5.3
and GNU Emacs 22.2.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.3.0, Carbon Version  
1.6.0) of 2008-07-17 on cf-ppc-macosx.usr.sourceforge.jp

What's the best way to /massidle a channel?

Thanks!
karl

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