Personally, I'm not very big on using AIM anymore. It tends to be murder on the computer I'm currently forced to use; the only reason I've been on lately is to catch up with old friends and discuss ToC stuff with my partner.
As a contrast though, I am on mIRC all day. I constantly have the thing running, and I love using it. It doesn't seem to have any sort of effect on how retarded this thing runs.
At any rate, I was thinking just yesterday about the old AIM chats that we'd all have, and how much fun they'd be. The only problem with them, was that no one would know that there was one going until you got the invite.
What I'd like to know, is how many of you are familiar with or use mIRC? I'd like to start up a channel for the ToC, but I don't want to waste my time if no one'll use it. I figured that it would be a good way of getting familiar with each other before the whole thing starts, and it would be much easier than setting up a chat function like we had here before.
If enough people will come, I'll set up the channel ASAP.