<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I was mulling over more realtime chat related to the PCT, so I've set up an IRC room on irc.foonetic.net / irc.xkcd.com as #PCT -- for those of you not familiar with IRC you need a client (Windows: <a href="http://www.mirc.com/">http://www.mirc.com/</a> / Mac: <a href="http://colloquy.info/">http://colloquy.info/</a> ) and then you need to connect to the server irc.xkcd.com on port 6667
you can then type /join #PCT into the text entry line of your client. I'm hoping we get a few people going here but I'm aware of the lack of technical savvy which seems to be the norm for the backpacking community.
Any questions feel free to e-mail me.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A little background on IRC is here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It will be nice to talk about backpacking-related issues in real time if this ends up coming together.</span></font></div></body></html>