The method that is used now are more or less flooding the server with "join" commands, wich makes the server de-prioritate you and all commands you are sendint it. Wich leeds to a, maybe 10 seconds lag when sending your first mesasge to a channel / user.
And I can only imagine what it with do to that poor people stuggling with 56k connections.
Eventually mIRC could get bloated if you fill it with all kind of functions that people would want...
but that makes me think of all the tools that aren't acctually beeing used.
Like the Channel Favorites, Online Timer(!), Url list(Good to have, but I dont think so many people are acctually using it), Adress Book (I dont know - are people seriously using it? But it's also good to have.)...
I belive they are all kind of old functions that just have been pushed along with the new versions of mIRC... well, some of them.
