I'm not a fan of services, such as nickserv, but I do understand the problem with jupes and establishing an identity. What about a system for nicks similair to chanfix? It will record hostnames over a period of time and score them. Should your nick get juped or someone else use it and your score is ...

I remember hearing a long time ago that EFnet was going to get mode +e, ban exception. For example, I could +b *!*@*.aol.com from a channel, but I could +e *!*myfriend@*.aol.com and then myfriend@aol.com would still be able to get in, even though there was a domain ban. What ever happened to that? ...