I hardly think that ban evasion applies to any great majority in the IRC world, most users log in, enjoy themselves and mind their own business. About 75% of those that know evading any ban is easy is more likely to find a new proxy before they realise that changing other details in mIRC *might* help them.
There's one other thing to, and I am not referring to or quoting something you mentioned, it's a general comment - alot of ideas and feature suggestions made here are replied with "then other programmes would have to have the same system for this or that to work". Yes and No... mIRC is by far the most popular chat programme in the world. That is why there are so many contributors to this forum and why everywhere you go there is likely to be a substantial majority using mIRC over other clients such as Pirch or the newer Klient, dIRC, Bersirc, etc or clients made for 2 or more operating systems such as Bitch X, X Chat, KVirc or the programmes made for Apple systems. On this note is there any harm in letting mIRC lead the way here? Vendors of Ident server software could easily follow suit here too.
Would you refuse to log into IRC just because you would have to hack into mIRC or an ident server to alter it's output for an ident request? I know I wouldn't. The USER part of your details is, usually, ten characters. I am sure therefore that privacy issues arn't a concern.
No-one has claimed here that it's a foolproof way of being able to ban people. One day with some positive thought the system, if implemented, could work well. A copper doesn't consign his ink pad to the bin just because his prisoner sands the prints off his fingers, does he....
Hmm, BTW, as I said before, generally the system does work reasonably well, as I have taken part in an initiative to help make it work. I'm by no means the only one. Before I give you your ten ways of defeating this idea (like it's really a challenge isn't it) can you please suggest a fairer way of doing it?
