You're either confused or confusing :tongue:
[...] or one signal set to the nicks in the channel once, when the mode is set/removed.
I agree, this is the way it should be: the
servers will have to work this way, ie send a notification when a nick changes their away status. mIRC cannot do
anything towards that direction until servers support it.
I don't think this has to be a sort of thing where a client should have to be checking status every so many seconds.
This is exactly what x-chat (and other clients) currently do to 'implement' this feature.
No, "at least" isn't correct. You have to understand, if you haven't already, that:
1) this isn't a mIRC limitation
2) other clients that keep track of users' away status do a /who every X seconds. They don't use some sort of server-side notification feature, simply because it doesn't exist (yet).
