Phil Jackson <phil@shellarchive.co.uk> writes:

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>> How about writing a little extension org-irc.el that extends the link
>> mechanism for both cases? I'd love to see more such extensions, and I
>> would be happy to distribute them with Org-mode, and to put them into
>> Emacs if the papers are in order.
>
> Sure, I'll get a patch to you when I can.

Please find attached a 'beta' of the plugin. If anyone could give it a
quick test that would be great. It needs a little bit of re-factoring I
think so I'll do that post critique.