What quote? And yes, in my opinion some IRC clients have suboptimal defaults or missing support for this. It&#x27;s a shame, but changing your nick to emulate a built in IRC command is in no way a solution. Away is standard, and every client should support it. In the end it&#x27;s a question of the channels rules, but spamming nick-changes is annoying-- especially because people use different formats and simple filtering won&#x27;t catch all cases. In addition it also breaks queries and might change your identity from a trusted nick to one that could be... everyone.<p>You&#x27;re advocating using a hacky workaround that stems from client-side UI  issues, instead of using a well-defined built in message. This just seems wrong to me, in every way.