Hi,
With some tweaking to some ircdeamons out there it is possible to use nicknames with color codes
however, those nicks showup with the exact codes (not the colors its self) in the mirc userlist
for example a nick with :ICE (and color codes in between) whould show the big black blocks it usually does with itls color number
[]9I[]8C[]7E
now if mirc whould support this, the icd's can follow
(yes i know this is some trouble for name checking for the ircd writers out there) but a coder can overcome anything