Livin' the life...

From the beginning I've had some fascination with IRC so since there seems to be interest by others to revive the bajan channel #sponger, my goal was to get me a good IRC client to participate in the madness.

Now, as I consider myself a thoroughly 'legit' user, downloading mIRC (the most popular IRC client) wasn't really an option because after the 30 day evaluation period, the trial version 'expires' and you're _supposed_ to register and pay $20 USD. (A fee I don't intend on paying.)

What were my other options? Well, to find out I headed over to download.com. There I found lots of clients buttt, none that matched what I wanted. I was more looking for a lightweight client that just had the basics, you know.. allowed me to chat in multiple channels easily, do !ping, *slap someone with a large trout (*haha), etc.. So with that source as a bust, I headed this time to my 'pal', google. This source didn't prove too good either as I just found a bunch of suspicious looking proggies... (however... I did find a good open source VB 6 client, if only I could've gotten it converted successfully to VB.NET! )

Cutting to the chase... I happened to mention what I was looking for to a pal of mine - enter Antonio. As a Linux-variant user... his first suggestion was (the Windows version of) B*tchX - the most popular IRC client for Linux users. So me, the trustful guy I am, headed over to the ftp site and 'copped myself' a version. After some initial struggles with the command line interface, I got it to work and now I'm set! Its similar to mIRC but just pure command line.. If you're looking for a free IRC client without all the bells and whistles, I recommend you check it out! Here's the URL and here's the FTP site.