Some network services allow an ident@host style of vhost, on such networks its quite common for an ident to change.
One the one network I see that used, the server sends a part and a join whenever ident or host is changed.
To the user that suggested doing a bunch /who # a* etc, that seems rather inefficient and ultimately a bad idea to me. It would then need to send 40+ individual /who requests, for each channel. A single /who # and dealing with the lag all at once would be better than joining several large channels, and issuing all those seperate /who requests for each channel and experience extended lag issues (pausing and unpausing everytime it recieves a result set).
Let the scripters deal with that.
PS: It would be nice if someone split this thread
