'Send an action to a channel or user.
@type sender: C{str} or C{unicode}
@param sender: Who is sending this message.  Should be of the form
username!ident@hostmask (unless you know better!).
@type recip: C{str} or C{unicode}
@param recip: The recipient of this message.  If a channel, it must
start with a channel prefix.
@type message: C{str} or C{unicode}
@param message: The action being sent.'

def action(self, sender, recip, message):

    self.sendLine((':%s    ACTION    %s    :%s' % (sender, recip, message)))
