hammer, that's pretty much what i've done now without the aliasing bit, which i didn't think of so thnx. atm I've got something like:
set %var irc.<server>.net
server -m irc.<server>.net

but yeah, aliasing my own /server would be better :tongue:

also i could use the reverse dns but that seems quite long winded and for now i'll stick to aliasing. Thnx for ur suggetsions guys, maybe that's something the mIRC ppl could add.