Hi all, you fellows ferret fanatics: There seems to be an interest again in ferret IRC. We Did have a channel on the undernet but people had a prob connecting to a server. As far as irc.prospero.com goes it seems that is maintained by Qualcomm ( the people that brought you Eudora for email ) and will only handle 1000+ users. We could start channel on Efnet, by far the largest of the nets around for IRC, but some have mentioned the lag problem on that and i have to mention it is a prob on Efnet. There is also Dalnet and and NewNet. Dalnet can be easily located on on Windows based Mirc. newnet has only a few servers but there is not much prob connecting, personally for newnet I use irc.erinet.com ports 6667. Some of you other providers such as eskimo.com,epix.net are not connected to the internet and just run a chat server for their own log-ins. Some others servers also do this i.e. irc.winternet.com (who used to be hooked to the efnet but is now hooked to something called GalaxyNet). As you can tell this is very confusing but servers must do what they can to stay proftable-viable. On another line one of our Fredonia rescues, Bullwinkle the 6 month old Gib, is sneezing an awful lot lately. I hopefully will see the vet tomorrow and get some Amoxy in case it's an resperatory infection. Apollo, another Fredonia rescue, has been picking on Ashlar( our 6 yr old with insulinoma). We've had to break the fighting up since Apollo goes for the throat. Prosephone( I think i finally spelt it correctly)is not a social fert at all, but that is to be expected seeing the charm school she attended ( Mr. Friend's school for wayward ferrets)but she is beginning to at least do more than just cuddle in our hands when either of us give her some cage-free time. These ferts will take time!!!!! Also my wife would like to write a book concerning the Fredonia ferret rescue so any of you involved with it if you would send us the info on why you did this and the emails that were involved she would be appreciative of that. I will keep the FML updated on these ferts since i know so many of you had us in your thoughts. I soon will be putting up some jpgs on my web-page of the ferts and the trip to the land of Dorothy. John and Roxane www.iac.net/~kaligula/kaligula.htm [Posted in FML issue 1734]