>And by your own logic, the best thing with mIRC not having
>a monopoly on IRC clients is your ability to go use a client of
>your own choice. You can easily stay away from mIRC if
>you don't like the way it's heading.

The problem here is that there is always 2 clients involved in a file transfer. So even if i change client, the other client i'm sending to or receiving from will probably be mIRC. Or are you saying that i should send files to myself? Or telling everyone, i want to send a file, to change client?
And yeah, you too could easily stay away from mIRC... smile