IRC Client & URL

The debate transcript looked wonderful--I wish I could have been there....

...and I would have been, if I knew where to find an IRC client. It's been years since I used one and MSChat (don't laugh) just wouldn't connect.

Anyway, for your next debate, you may want to provide a list of recommended IRC clients (mIRC, dIRC, MaxxChat, TurboIRC, etc.)

This URL has a bunch of clients for virtually all platforms: http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/irc-clients.html

To help guide the less experienced user to the chatroom, it would also be worthwhile to include the IRC URL. Such as:

irc://irc.austnet.org:6667/%23devDebate

You can check out http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-...a/irc-urls.html for using Mozilla, etc. and for IRC URL formats.

Until next time!

Wow, didn't know it was possible to use irc://

I think the easiest chat client available is mIRC. It's the one most people are using anyway..

I like mIRC, too. The only thing I can't figure out is how to switch servers. If I hit "disconnect" then "connect", it reconnects to the same server. I have to exit/restart the program to get the server connection dialogue to appear...

If you know what I'm doing wrong -- please tell me!

It's quite easy, take a look:

To connect to a server type:
/server serverhost

To connect to another server (you can be connected to multiple servers at the same time), you can type:
/server -n serverhost

edit: you could also go to the options-box, and select a server from the drop down list, if you like to do it the GUI way