Beta Release - Sat Apr 6, 2002 <CHAT CANDIDATE 1>

[jigsaw]

Learn anything new?!?

LOL!   (No, I didn't. I feel asleep during the conversation.)

[Great Dane]

talked to myself a while, and left.

At least you got to talk to a sensible person.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Seemed to work okay. I created a room, and talked to myself for a while. Tried out all of the buttons, couldn't quite figure out the "emoticon" function. Win2000Pro, IE 5.5

[Timesink]

Is IRC restricted to nine-character handles? I know that is how the big IRC networks are setup, is it a protocol limitation or their policy?

I'm about 90% sure it's protocol. I had completely forgotten about that, to be honest.

And can it authenticate against a database?

This I don't know at all, but I guess with the 9-character limitation it's sort of irrelevant. I'm not hung up on IRC so much as I'm really against bad Java software that takes forever to load and generally ends up crashing your machine after a certain amount of time. If you can find one that doesn't make my computer freeze, I'll be quite happy, even if it is a slow loader.

But... what I really want is voice capability. IRC doesn't do that, and neither does NFC Chat-- so, I'll ditch it as soon as I find one that does.

Well ... just keep in mind us Mac and Linux/Unix people, please! No Windows-only chat software!

Hey, I do know about this software: http://moock.org/chat/client.html. I don't know how expandable it is or whether authentication is available or anything. But I do know it loads instantly and seems to actually work. Might be work a look-see...