If your network has been testing colours in nicks for 2 weeks I'd have expected it to have come to your attention the major issues this creates. To list a couple of obvious ones:
- People can appear to be someone else by using the same nick with a few control codes thrown in. Currently mIRC's lack of support for colours in the nicklist prevents this from occurring there but it still happens when people use nicknames as hotlinks to open query windows.
- Anyone who strips colours can't contact certain people and won't have a clue why not.
It shouldn't have taken more than an hour of 'testing' for these issues to become clear. In fact just 5 minutes of consideration beforehand would've done it. In other words, I strongly disagree that mIRC should display colours in the nicklist, and I strongly disagree with the entire concept of control codes in nicknames.
