removing the status of each nick on receiving the names' raw may not be the better method because this will fill the file with all the nicknames without any way to distinguish between the nicknames later.
i think that there must be a filtering funtion if the user asks only for the regulars/voices/half-ops/ops.
[pseudocode]
open file
filter file
save result to a newfile
play newfile
delete newfile
[/pseudocode]
a better method would be to save the names in a hash table of an ini file. this will permet to 'index' any data that would be written. thus easing the retrieval for later use.
