Decided to remove setting because it seemed unnecessary when this was the purported default behavior anyway. It makes sense that if they want to send to offline, they'd override the option to be True in their channel typeclasses. At least that's my thinking, maybe I'm off base. Remove docstr line that says online arg is not currently used.

evennia/comms/comms.py

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 Base typeclass for in-game Channels.
 
 """
-from django.conf import settings
-
 from evennia.typeclasses.models import TypeclassBase
 from evennia.comms.models import TempMsg, ChannelDB
 from evennia.comms.managers import ChannelManager
@@ -240,7 +238,6 @@ class DefaultChannel(with_metaclass(TypeclassBase, ChannelDB)):
         Args:
             msgobj (Msg or TempMsg): Message to distribute.
             online (bool): Only send to receivers who are actually online
-                (not currently used):
 
         Notes:
             This is also where logging happens, if enabled.
@@ -267,7 +264,7 @@ class DefaultChannel(with_metaclass(TypeclassBase, ChannelDB)):
             logger.log_file(msgobj.message, self.attributes.get("log_file") or "channel_%s.log" % self.key)
 
     def msg(self, msgobj, header=None, senders=None, sender_strings=None,
-            keep_log=None, online=settings.CHANNELS_MSG_OFFLINE, emit=False, external=False):
+            keep_log=None, online=False, emit=False, external=False):
         """
         Send the given message to all players connected to channel. Note that
         no permission-checking is done here; it is assumed to have been

evennia/settings_default.py

@@ -125,8 +125,6 @@ LOCKWARNING_LOG_FILE = os.path.join(LOG_DIR, 'lockwarnings.log')
 # file sizes down. Turn off to get ever growing log files and never
 # loose log info.
 CYCLE_LOGFILES = True
-# whether channels attempt to message offline players by default
-CHANNELS_MSG_OFFLINE = False
 # Local time zone for this installation. All choices can be found here:
 # http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/datetime-keywords.html#DATETIME-TIMEZONE-SET-TABLE
 TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'