One of the things I often look for is when someone joins a channel I am on and does a CTCP VERSION check of me or the entire channel, which may be a prelude to an attack (often, they searching for clients with known bugs/exploits in specific mIRC versions.) While looking for that, this idea hit me..
Your post to me indicates something totally different.
Most of the clients out there for use are updated regularly such as mIRC. Unless you're using an old version, in which case that's your own fault. They aren't versioning you for that, a lot of networks don't mask ip's so they would just need to whois you.
And most properly run networks don't want to run into trouble, they version you hoping to get back a reply of some description so they don't think you're a bot, or someone up to no good.
Letting people customize their own reply would make this worse and you'd end up with more malicious users on networks.
To sum this suggestion up, Terrible idea.
Also, if people make scripts and don't like khaled's version reply next to theirs, tough.. use another client or make your own. You wouldn't start renaming your web browser or your email client when the opposite end tries to obtain the info, so why should his program be any different?
It all points to dodgy dealings imo, a grey area.
