I see a grey square only. No way to login. Marc On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, at 11:04 [=GMT+0200], Iliya Nickelt wrote: > Dear NCUC members, > > Kathy asked me to announce that the (IRC) chat session about WHOIS will be > TODAY (Friday 11) at > 14h GMT - 10 am EDT - 4 pm in Europe - 10 pm in Manila > and so on. For other time zones, see here (long url): > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=11&month=6&year=200 > 4&hour=10&min=0&sec=0 > > This will give everybody an opportunity to discuss questions, get help for > comments and debate the NCUC position on the task force reports. Of course > the NCUC Representatives for WHOIS Task Forces 1, 2, and 3 will also be > around. > > Technical details: > The meeting will take place in the room (channel) > #jon_postel of the server irc.chat.org.uk:6667 > The easiest way to participate is to enter via a java client I have > configured accordingly. Just point your browser to > ========================= > http://iliya.de/chat.html > ========================= > You can check if it works at any time (for example now). If it does not > work, most likely your java is absent or misconfigured (the case with some > microsoft machines). In this case, download the Java Standard Edition (JSE) > at http://java.sun.com/j2se/index.jsp > > Alternatively, you can use your own client to connect. Most "Messenger" > programs should connect to IRC if you enter the coordinates above. Also, > you can use a dedicated IRC client (e. g. I use Visual IRC: > http://visualirc.net/virc200.exe [3 MB]) Then enter "irc.chat.org.uk" as > server (VIRC: menu "configurations") and connect (VIRC: button "start"). > When the server has finished answering, type "join #jon_postel" (sometimes > also "/join #jon_postel"). After that, you can just happily chat along, IRC > is very straight forward. > > I hope this will work for everybody and that we can have an interesting > chat, > > --iliya >