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| | PCWorld.com - Let's Talk About Chat |
 | | Because it's the standard, IRC is also the most established way to chat, which translates into a huge variety of chat topics and a choice of numerous chat programs. |
 | | Most IRC software lets you participate in multiple chats at once, color each person's comments in different shades (to identify friends quickly, for instance), ignore text from others (so you're not overwhelmed by knuckleheads' blather, a curse of many chat rooms), and even send files back and forth to one another. |
 | | IRC is notorious for topics that aren't quite family-friendly (including some that most adults wouldn't dare venture near). |
| www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,12649,pg,5,00.asp (408 words) |
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