yes, it has been posted before and the general opinions were this (in no order of agree or disagree nor is this every reason):
1) No because other mircs cant do it and backwards compatibility
2) Yes, other clients can and have been able to for years while mirc never did, why should it be the standard
3) yes because programs like MS word and many others use bold italics and underline - seem to be the major 3 ways of formatting text
5) possibly, but it would need to be flood filtered
6) yes because reverse text is stupid and we should have italics
Try searching the whole forum with no range date and you should see it
All in all, I agree with Italics coming to mirc, but as always, I wait to see what happens
