Spam is any unwanted activity. It's visible to the service operators, and I predict that it'll annoy them, and they'll try to stop it. Apart from anything else,

Spam is any unwanted activity. It's visible to the service operators, and I predict that it'll annoy them, and they'll try to stop it. Apart from anything else, it'd start filling up their disks if it was widely used. Have you asked the opinion of any IRC admins?