I am so pleased to hear that DALnet is closing down file sharing channels.

Could it be that such channels on DALnet were used to send out the trojans that caused the DOS attacks?

I hope other networks take this lead and close down such activity. I know it may not all be illegal but I am all for IRC to be used for chatting!

I suggest that mIRC also show some moves to keeping IRC for chatting and either scrap dcc features or limit them somehow to only allowing small files.