Unfortunately this subject arises much too often. I would really
hate to see mIRC make these changes to try and appeal to the IM
crowd. Bundling IRC and IM into one application has already been
done with Trillian, and I think that was a great idea, let Trillian
add all the smilies and things that these people want, just please
leave our mIRC alone. As it is now there are IM apps, IRC apps
and with Trillian there is both. If a person really wants all that
stuff added to mIRC, they can script it in, that is but one part
of the beauty of mIRC, a very large part actually.
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It would be nice if Khaled would take a position on this issue.
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is there really a need to have that many networks?
The thing about IRC servers is, anyone that feels like it can
download any of the free IRCd's and run their own server. It's
an age-old thing with IRC for everyone wanting to be the one in
charge, wanting to be the one that owns the popular network.
Also, everyone thinks that they can do it better, so they split
off from the network they oper on, download an IRCd, get a shell
and start their own network. It's the same way with channels,
there really only needs to be one help channel, or one mp3 channel
or whatever channel on a network, but everyone wants to be the
one in charge, the one that owns the popular channel, and again,
everyone thinks they can do it better, so now you have 100+ help
channels, 1000+ mp3 channels and 10,000+ whatever else channels
on one network. These things will probably never change.
