(but then you might as well just write such functionality directly into the IRCd) Nah, such a thing would make most sense as a separate daemon that uses the se

(but then you might as well just write such functionality directly into the IRCd) Nah, such a thing would make most sense as a separate daemon that uses the server-server protocol to connect to the ircd (ie. it appears to the rest of the network as just another ircd). It wouldn't be hard to build such a thing, the hard part would be convincing an existing IRC network to run it.