thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately that did not work either

if I manually edit the ignore list using the mIRC editor, I can insert a "remove in x minutes" value, which apparently updates the entry -- which is removed by mIRC after the timeout interval -- but even when I force control.ini to be written to disk using /saveini, the entry for the the nick I just added to the ignore list DOES NOT have a value corresponding to the -u flag

this might be by design, after all, if control.ini is saved to disk with a timeout value, that value certainly is incorrect almost immediately, and I wouldn't expect the file to be rewritten once per second to keep it up to date

anybody have any other suggestions?