Guys I own a server that cnczone is welcome to use to set up a chat channel if you want to I have about 1000 users already, in diffrent channels. for those that do not have an irc client you can go to
http://www.uicn.net and join through there or you can use earthquake.uicn.net in your irc client. I have ran an irc server for over 10 years now. same user name there as i have here!