I've never used the chat room but that's because I don't have the Java virtual machine 'cos MS didn't supply it with XP. Even though Sun won it's case against Murkysoft in regards to this, MS still haven't released a version of this software for XP. When I've been involved in other irc chat rooms a group of people who regularly chat tend to say will be there at whatever time so that folk can arrange to be there too. Maybe we could do that here so we know when a session is scheduled. Catlin