Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a protocol that allows for Internet text messaging and conferencing. It allows for group communication called channels and one-to-one communication called private message. The official IRC channel for bigmalletman.com v6 is hosted by ChatSpike. I can often be found in this channel as nick bigmalletman. The methods for connecting to my channel are below.
You may connect to my IRC channel using PJIRC, a Java applet hosted on this website.
Connect using PJIRC (New Window)
You may connect to my IRC channel using locally installed client software, such as ChatZilla, IRSSI, Konversation, Pidgin, Trillian, and others. The link below will work if your browser has a handler for irc://. Otherwise, make a manual connection using your IRC software.
Server: irc.chatspike.net
Port: 6667
Channel: #bigmalletman
HTML IRC Link