Thanks Wims.
Racoon, all that is excellent information and I will keep note of it, but it wasn't necissarily what I meant.
I have a global variable called %serverregistration that gets set to 1 on receiving raw 1 message from the IRC server, and is only reset after the user counts on the server messages.
That way my On raw events can happily mask the outputs I dont want to see,. In the case of MotD, that gets written to a .txt file (converting space to $chr(160) - remeber that post ?) checking the file crc and comparing it with the last saved MotD (another glob stores the crc), then only displays it in a custom window if different, but ONLY if this is in server registration.
Once thats all done and dusted, channels joined etc. and the user types /motd into (say) the status window: that processing just doesn't happen - proceedes as per mIRC default (assuming skip MotD is not not set in Options, IRC, Options).
Same for LUSERS and Names <Channel Name> (diff variable for that one - masked during connection process, but can be entered by users and displayed.
No child to parent in that type of example, but the discussion got good info out of it
