I like the SERVICES=XXX suggestion, but what about it being a URI... just like in html, you link to a stylesheet
Have the file written in XML or something derived from it.
<SERVICE title="Uncle Joes Pizza Bot">
<COMMAND action="order" title="Order Pizza" description="This command lets you order a pizza" syntax="nick password email" />
</SERVICE>
That'd let mirc pick it up and fetch it from the URI, and scripters could customise stuff ontop of mircs implementation.
Mirc might jsut build a popup menu system off of it, with a few nity hints, and prompt for input. It could then 'remember' certain stuff
You could also really econmise on stuff by doing something like inheritence, so if your services are identical to dal nets except use 2 different commands, you simply do:
<SERVICE base="Dalnet"> etc.
This Idea excites me
oh oh oh...
What about an RSS summary of channels - it'd be a lot slower than a typical list, but it'd let website and so forth integrate with irc better. Perhaps run it all offa an ansi sql db that supports limit and offset so you can 'paginate' results, saving bandwidth.
Just some whacky ideas
