No luck. I got the "unable to connect to server" message over and over--I think the firewall is blocking me. I'm going to call ITS tomorrow and see if someone can tell me how to use mIRC with their restrictions. And if it STILL won't work, I'm going to have to go to someone's house this weekend--they'll let me hook my computer up to their DSL, so if I get there a few hours early (Eastern time here) and try it out, I'll have to do it all at once. I'm familiar with some online chat programs, channels, that sort of thing, but it's not IRC. So hopefully the similarities between them will benefit me and not trip me up, lol. I noticed, for instance, somewhere there was a request for no shortened language--and on that other program I use, "np" is used for "no problem", "ty" for "thank you", that sort of thing is second nature to me, might be hard to NOT do.
