Really cool. I think I will change my NIP draft to use the same IRC channel naming conventions/spec. Its not quite the same at the moment. This should help.
Couldn't go to sleep until I built an app to bridge IRC channels with coolr
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If you want to test it, I have a bot running that bridges messages from the "irc" channel on wss://relay.damus.io to ircs://irc.zeronode.net:6697/#nostr