I can sympathise with the ident issue mentioned by the original poster. It's a long overdue feature that I know works because I, and people I know, have seen it work.
- Sorry? You've seen a popular IRC client implement serial ident's? When did that happen? My point is that it hasn't happened with mIRC, or any major IRC client for that matter (that I know of anyway), so whether serial-type ident's works in any other area of computing is irrelevant. As codemastr stated, it would not be hard to circumvent, and the idea that people would then
think that this was a foolproof way to ban someone would in fact make ban evasion so much worse because of the common user's trust in a feature that simply doesn't work.
