diff -ru infobot-orig-0.44.3/src/nickometer.pl infobot-0.44.3/src/nickometer.pl
--- infobot-orig-0.44.3/src/nickometer.pl	Fri Aug 13 05:29:29 1999
+++ infobot-0.44.3/src/nickometer.pl	Mon Jan 31 19:30:46 2000
@@ -58,6 +58,23 @@
     &punish($special_cost{$special}, "matched special case /$special_pattern/")
       if $nick =~ /$special_pattern/i;
   }
+
+  # XF: Result overrides - just the thing when a specific person's nick is 
+  #   getting a completely bogus value...
+  #   Btw, these are case insensitive, and no kewltalk translation is 
+  #   performed.  'NaN' currently will result in a reading of "Off the scale".
+  my %override_result = (
+			 'xfire'		=> 0,
+			 'purlgurl'		=> 'NaN',
+			);
+
+  # XF: check to make sure that the victim isn't referenced with an override.
+  foreach my $override (keys %override_result) {
+    my $nick = $_;
+    if ($nick =~ /$override/i) {
+      return $override_result{$override};
+    } 
+  }
   
   # Allow Perl referencing
   s/^\\([A-Za-z])/$1/;