I feel that Automatic Scrolling may be anxiety-inducing, and also suspect that it may contribute to the addicting nature of chat.
OK I admit that at first I thought you were kidding.
It is quite possible to adapt to chatting in a busy channel where the text is scrolling, in some cases quite fast, track one thread among many and do it all without losing too much hair.
you mentioned scrolling back, in fact this is a good solution as you can back up a tad to catch up. I don't see how having an internal device in mIRC to do this when it would be the same amount of effort to jump back to the active conversation with the scroll bar as to push a button/icon or type a command.
