Tim Williams wrote:
> I usually participate by ssh'ing to my linux box and using xchat but
> I'm on travel and don't have that capability.  the windows version of
> xchat apparently costs money.  so, can someone recommend a good free
> irc client for windows?  I've got cygwin too but don't immediately see
> an irc capability in there either.

Don't know if it's a good one, but I use Mozilla Firefox [1] with the
ChatZilla [2] extension, installed from the Mozilla update site [3].

Ron

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
[2] http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/