I thought about that method as well. There is a problem with that method, however... If there are many people in the channel, you're going to be flooded off the server.
I'm trying to remember if you can do something like "/msg nick1,nick2,nick3 Hello" and have it only count as a single message with regards to server flood... I can't even remember right now if you can use commas like that and can't test /msg at work. It would probably end up needing to use a delay between messages.
