IMHO the idea of "wandering away" is what the concept of CTCP PAGER is for.
There is no such implimentation in mIRC, nor is it recognized as a standard by any stretch of the word. Suggest Khaled add this to mIRC and I will digress.
I personally don't like the idea. When I hear mIRC "beep" I immediately look to see if a new [color:red]query window opened, or I received a notice. I don't want people to be able to make my mIRC beep whenever they feel like it.[/color]
You obviously weren't paying very close attention. Let me spell it out again.
mIRC will not beep when is used in a #channel, by default.
mIRC will only beep when is used in a query or notice. You say it already beeps on notices and new queries, why not beep on important subsequent queries too?
I don't see the problem here.