..on a server or server(s). (eg, /msg $*.net will send a message to all users on servers ending in .net, see RFC 1459 sec 4.4.1 for more).

mIRC puts messages sent like that in status.. I was expecting it to put it in a PM window. (I was sending a message about password security since we'd had a rash of compromised nicknames, so I wanted to use PM instead of notice so people can't miss it). Irssi at least recieves it as a PM.

As an example I type "/msg $*.com hi" and get in status "(Chris233) hi", instead of in a new PM window. The raw format received back is: "<- :Chris233!ident@host PRIVMSG $*.com :hi".

Shouldn't mIRC treat messages like this as normal PMs?

I'm running mIRC 6.16, and the servers I tested this one were both running Unreal, though I don't think the ircd makes a difference.