The point was setting up a conference that supports the MUC protocol, which is integrated into some IM clients, and offers some feature improvements over the IRC protocol.  I thought it might be good to have BOTH protocols available, possibly with a bridge between them (I think it's possible to do that on the server hosting the MUC conference).

Alan Dayley wrote:
  
Brock said:
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> I think there is already an IRC channel... maybe here:
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>   * http://www.phillylinux.org/irc.html
    

The P(hoenix)LUG IRC channel is here:

Server: irc.freenode.net
Port: 6667
Channel: #plugaz

As documented here:
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1&categories=General+Plug+Questions&parent_id=0#34

Alan