It might be interesting, yes. Though I'm betting most reponses you're going to get will say 'implement it in your own client' or similar. Mine would be: Interesting, as long as its also turn-offable in user settings .)

Personally, also, I would prefer people not address their answers to others directly quite so much, it reminds me too much of IRC, which the CB is not. Its a conversation for all, not a set of individual discussions happening in the same room by coincidence.

Name tagging is already being used to count 'points' (who talks to whom, and whose name gets mentioned the most), see Chatterbox conversational clusters, and http://mojotoad.perlmonk.org/cbs.

If you miss something, you're unlikely to see it in the CB itself anyway, since that only holds the last 10 lines, and if theres a lot going on, those last seconds.. If you want to see something you've missed, try asking diotalevi about his CB summoner, or using one of the history lists

C.

(Last comment, make a patch.. ;)