Sorry Brax, I was away when you wrote out that post. I hope you weren't flooded by away messages each time you hit enter... that would be annoying.

Anyway, mIRC proudly sports many features to hide repetitively-useless information from the display to promote a cleaner chat experience: Hide MOTD, Hide Names, Hide Join Part Quit Kick Nick Mode Topic CTCP events, Hide Ping? Pong!, Hide excessive Bold Underline Color Reverse formatting, Hide user addresses, and even a fine-grained Ignore feature to hide all of the above on a per-user basis.

Senseless away-reminders are just another one of those things that doesn't need to saturate our screens.


Well. At least I won lunch.
Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like!