[michaelmrose]

Maybe IRC should have a standard way to send an email to a user wherein the irc client knows the users email but don't reveal the users email. It could also use its intermediary status to filter obvious spam, individual channels/users could also set policy as to who is allowed to mail users for example registered accounts only.

[ghostly_s]

Well that sounds like a feature I would absolutely hate and never enable. Offline messages need to live in the same place as online messages.