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I think the way mIRC handles Notify lists is not the best and should be improved. For example, when making a change to the notify list, or just telling mIRC to list, mIRC clears the WATCH list on the server, and re-adds all the entries. There is no need to clear the WATCH list on the server, because most IRCd's alread maintain that list for you when it comes to adding/deleting entries.

Because mIRC does this, it makes it difficult to accuratly impliment your own Notify that is meant to work with mIRC's built-in Notify list.

I think that would be a better fit in the feature requests forum and not the bugs forum...

I was not sure, but after all it is unwanted behavior, which is a bug. That, however, is beside the point, and there is no point in reposting in the feature suggestions forum for someone to tell me it is a bug.

Just as a way to look at it (and no, I am not saying to repost it)...

A bug is something that happens that shouldn't happen. It's something that the program wasn't designed to have happen.

Soemthing that happens that you don't like, but works the way it was designed to work, is not a bug.

If I don't like how TABs work in dialogs, doesn't mean that they are a bug.

It is not a problem from mIRC but from the IRC server. mIRC receive the raw events from server which interprets.
The IRC server send a nickname, not an address nor a mask.

See the RFC talkig from server

I am saying there is no need to have mIRC clear the WATCH list on the server.

Let's say I add Nick3 to the Notify list, mIRC sends to the server:
Which tells the server to clear the WATCH list, and re-add those 3 nicks. Then requests stats for the WATCH list.


All mIRC had to was:
Which would have added Nick3 successfully without clearing the WATCH list.