irc

[The Troubadour]

Hi everyone, I've heard of furry & otherkin irc channels, but I'm not yet sure quite how irc works.  There's a server and a channel to join, right?  I know of certain rooms, but what about the step before that?  I'm not sure how to join.  Any pointers?

[RainRat]

Yep, you download an IRC client appropriate for your system. Then configure it to connect to irc.furnet.org

Then join your channel, #vfur or #bcfurries

[Vanilla Skunk]

I've been meaning to ask about the IRC channel for a while, thanks for that, Ratt.

And if you need an irc client, for Windows you have a few choices.  Googling "IRC Client" would give you a lot of choices, but a couple I've tried are:

mIRC @ http://mirc.co.uk
(free to try, for 30 days I think)

Trillian @ http://trillian.cc
(free, or pay for pro, also replaces a bunch of IM programs in one client)

Feel free, anyone else, to post clients for other OS's.  I don't have much out-of-windows experience.

[Acco]

Or http://tinyurl.com/kna2s7 - Silverex's Xchat2 build (free)