You who use msn should look into making a chat channel on IRC you can set your own up there, i`m sure omegian or loof could help you with that or some of teh other staff ex staff in game.
I suggest this purely for one reason, that is msn has hellish lag when people part or join, and a larger conversation can be annoying on it for that reason, also annoying when people spam you with nudges and emoticons, sure its funny for a while then you just end up blocking them..
IRC has no lag, at least not if you use trillian, xchat or virc or mirc as a client to get on it.
On that front, about Trillian
I`d recommend trillian then you can have irc and msn in one program, and yeah trillian as a client for msn is less laggy than msn itself, doesn`t have as many emoticon features though, but they tend to piss me off anyway, it does have some nice skins if you`re into the cosmetic imagery of a chat client. I know there aren`t as many players playing GC as there once was, easily 1/4 of what there were when i started or less, however less lag the better i`m sure for you all.
Its just a tip or recommendation, anyone that is a respectful computer gek type would try this and see if i`m right if only to try to prove me wrong. Try them see what you think.
Treg runs the Californian webbnet irc server www.webbnet.info irc.ca.webbnet.info:6667
you`ll see it listed as that on that web address. I find that its more secure than other irc servers out there for that reason.
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