I don't know what you're talking about crestfallen.
It's definitely easier to just right click blacklist them, if there's 50 of them, all hammering out ***.***.*** constantly, then your chats will be really quite difficult to follow.
I was talking to the head of a gold selling company months ago, and I was saying that spamming chat is pissing your potential customers off.
I then said to use party ads, 1 per channel, as that is WAY less annoying, but, they apparently didn't listen.
As for the ini comment, it's probably a function like autoit's INIread.