\"ANYTHING can be unsafe, even just a CTCP event (backdoor anyone?) - that\'s no reason to say \"well, X can be unsafe, so it doesn\'t matter if there\'s an unsafe flaw in my snippet\".\"\" you just Contradicted yourself mIRC has many things that are un safe in the help file and they tell you up front its unsafe. People looking at my snippet should know what it does by looking at the on text events. If there on a server without chanserv and they put a bot like that in there chat..first off why would you need a bot for something like that...most servers like that are just chat and not to many people even use op, half op, voice commands. They join and chat.