Thanks to all authors. Without their hard and volunteer work I'd never write it, and we'd never get our hands on Linux nor IRC.
See http://www.pervalidus.net/documentation/IRC-mini-HOWTO/
See above.
Khaled Mardam-Bey must be stopped :-)
'If idiots could fly, IRC would be an airport'. I don't know who wrote that, but it makes sense. For those of you using IRC to annoy people I ordered a /kill.