diff -urdBN emech-2.8.1/src/combot.c emech-2.8.1-topic/src/combot.c
--- emech-2.8.1/src/combot.c	Mon Apr  2 04:26:12 2001
+++ emech-2.8.1-topic/src/combot.c	Thu Apr  5 18:44:28 2001
@@ -739,6 +739,7 @@
 #endif /* MULTI */
 	char	*temp,*chantemp;
 	int	x;
+	int 	trvar;
 	ltime = localtime(&now);
 	x = 0;
@@ -766,6 +767,16 @@
 					parse_avoice(Chan);
 				if (Chan->avoice)
 					x++;
+
+				trvar = get_int_varc(Chan,SETTR_VAR);
+				if (trvar && ((now - Chan->last_topic) >= (trvar * 60)))  
+				{	
+					if (Chan->topic)
+					{
+						send_to_server("TOPIC %s :%s",Chan->name,Chan->topic);
+						Chan->last_topic = now;
+					}
+				}
 #ifdef LINKING
 				if (!Chan->bot_is_op && Chan->active == CH_ACTIVE)
 					needop(Chan->name);
diff -urdBNU 1 emech-2.8.1/src/defines.h emech-2.8.1-topic/src/defines.h
--- emech-2.8.1/src/defines.h	Mon Apr  2 04:26:12 2001
+++ emech-2.8.1-topic/src/defines.h	Thu Apr  5 18:27:27 2001
@@ -120,2 +120,3 @@
 	SETMAL_VAR,
+	SETTR_VAR,
 	SETBANMODES_VAR,
diff -urdBNU 1 emech-2.8.1/src/global.h emech-2.8.1-topic/src/global.h
--- emech-2.8.1/src/global.h	Mon Apr  2 09:03:52 2001
+++ emech-2.8.1-topic/src/global.h	Thu Apr  5 18:41:54 2001
@@ -189,2 +189,3 @@
 { /* MAL */		INT_VAR,		90,	NULL,	0,	100	},
+{ /* TR */              INT_VAR,                0,      NULL,   0,      1500    },
 { /* BANMODES */	INT_VAR+GLOBAL_VAR,	4,	NULL,	1,	10	},
@@ -238,2 +239,3 @@
 { "MAL",	"Mass action level (Max userlevel that mass functions won't affect)"	},
+{ "TR",         "Topic refresh delay in minutes (0 turns it off)"                       },
 { "BANMODES",	"Number of MODE -b that can be done at a time"				},
diff -urdBNU 1 emech-2.8.1/src/structs.h emech-2.8.1-topic/src/structs.h
--- emech-2.8.1/src/structs.h	Mon Apr  2 04:26:12 2001
+++ emech-2.8.1-topic/src/structs.h	Thu Apr  5 18:23:01 2001
@@ -170,2 +170,3 @@
 	time_t		last_needop;		/* last time we asked for ops		*/
+	time_t		last_topic;		/* last time the topic got refreshed    */