Heh, I thought /ignore was a mandatory feature in #empeg :-)

I personally didn't need it though to ignore an annoyning user. Instead at work, I wanted it to ignore a certain bot that announces cases to the room. I have no need to monitor them, so it's just extra text filling the screen.

Anyhow, I do also recommend XChat or Trillian on a Windows box. There are still free versions of XChat for Windows out there, just search around on Google to find them.