"we" in no way means the mirc community. "we" means "the speaker (ie. me) and an unspecified group of other people (ie. the majority of people i've mentioned it to)".
don't put words into my mouth by saying i was speaking for all mirc users, when i neither said nor implied any such thing. it should have been obvious i wasn't, as only an abject moron would assume that any group of people that large would agree on much of anything.
that said, to expand on my request, using some actual explanation....
there is a sizable percentage of users who actively desire itallics. yes there are *other* ways of doing things, but they are, for the most ugly, and have no defined meaning... also, itallics isn't supposed to be used to simply draw attention to text. it has a few specific gramatic uses (off the top of my head, to clearly mark text as being in a differant language).
IRC is a text-based medium. now, i recognize it may not be possible (for some reason i don't know) in mIRC to implement itallics - or at least not easy. but it strikes me that when using something that is as limiting as pure-text, building the standard text-options into the program is a logical thing to do. two of these standards are Bold and Underline, both are in place. the other (and probably, in most forms of writing, most common) is the absent Itallics.
