Invitation to Flippy's Cat Chat Party

Flippy skrev i meddelandet ...
Dear Elisabet,

I will get Mex to contact you for help.

Purrs,
--
Flippy in Melbourne, Australia.

Thank you Flippy,
Elisabet

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Mishi wrote:
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Okay, I just read the AOL help section again. It says my solution is to
change ISP's. That's a lot of help.

Sherry

Hi Sherry,
Do you have Internet Explorer or Netscape installed separately on your
computer? If so, you may be able to sign in to AOL, minimize it, then run
IE/NS separately and access the chat. I used to do it that way.

Good luck!
Patti

Thanks, Patti, but I don't think I can afford to do it that way! :-)
We are on rural dial-up. *All* ISP's are a long-distance charge. I'm on
a "plan" with the phone co. that I get unlimited access to *one* phone
number for $30 extra on my phone bill. If I sign on with any other
number, it's a per-minute charge for every minute I'm online.
We can't get broadband and there is no local ISP #.

Sherry

I don't think she means to dial up again. The browser should "see" the AOL
connection and go from it.

The uni I work for online got new chat and IE 6 users sometimes had trouble
with chat. THey needed to install a slightly older version of java to work.
So that is a tip for some of you that may help. If you install java and it
doesn't work, you might need a slightly older version.

Lisa Katt wrote:
Christine K. skrev i meddelandet ...
Lisa Katt wrote:

I can't figure out how to register.
I am not an IRC or MIRC user. I don't even know what that means.
Help?
Elisabet

Flippy skrev i meddelandet ...

Now for the chatroom links:

Starchat IRC for WebTV users:
http://www.starchat.net/wtv/wtv.php?...lippys_catchat

Java IRC for PC users:
http://www.starchat.net/chat/index.p...lippys_catchat

For IRC & MIRC users, the website is http://www.starchat.net, and the
channel is: #flippys_catchat

If you need any help getting into the room, please see this page:
http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html


Elisabet,
If you use a PC to access the internet, but don't have a separate
program for IRC-chatting (such as mIRC, Pirch, MS Chat, Visual IRC,
IceChat etc.), you should use the link under "Java IRC for PC users".
The link goes straight to a browser based version of the chatroom.

Choose a nickname and enter it into the box "Nick", no passwords or room
keys required, just hit Connect to StarChat and you'll se a list of text
flitter by - your computer connects to the StarChat server - let the
text do its thing, and once it stops you can go ahead and chat -
provided there are others to chat with...

To chat you just type your text into the box below the (fairly small)
chat window and hit Enter - and your text turns up in the chat window
for all chatters to see.

I tested chatting with myself (as there only seemed to be a couple of
bots on the channel) with one me in the Java chat and another on IceChat
in IRC and it works just fine, both can see what the other says. So now
I've really done it - talking to myself in public and over the net!!

Hope this helps.

--
Christine in Vantaa, Finland

Thank you Christine, you always take time for this sort of questions,
I have tried this and it does not work.
I enter a nickname, hit connect and the chat window opens. It tells me:
Connecting to irc.starchat.net 7000......
and then nothing more happens. At all.

Elisabet


If you do have Java enabled in your browser, I really don't know what
else to suggest. Check the Java settings of your browser.
In Mozilla Firefox it is under Tools - Options - Web Features (at least
in version 1.0.6), In Netscape 7.2 under Edit - Preferences - Advanced -
Scripts & Plugins, in Netscape 8.0 under Tools - Options - Site Controls
and within the frame Web Features. In Internet Explorer (the latest one
I have is 6.0 sp2, I don't use it) it's found under Tools - Internet
Options/Settings (?, my IE's in Finnish), Additional settings (or
something like that). Used to have Opera too at some time, but it didn't
do what I wanted so I deleted it. Like I've said before, I like to try
out different programs.

--
Christine in Vantaa, Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com
photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63
photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63

Norm wrote:

As I read it, the suggestion is, if you have more than one browser, to
access AOL with Netscape then minimize that window and open another
browser to go to the chatroom - same dialup session.
Norm

I don't have a clue how to access AOL any other way than through AOL. I
do't even know what Netscape *is*.
But thanks for trying. I think I'm a lost cause :-)
Sherry

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Norm wrote:

As I read it, the suggestion is, if you have more than one browser, to
access AOL with Netscape then minimize that window and open another
browser to go to the chatroom - same dialup session.
Norm

I don't have a clue how to access AOL any other way than through AOL. I
do't even know what Netscape *is*.
But thanks for trying. I think I'm a lost cause :-)
Sherry

Not at all. There are several browsers (what you use to surf), IE comes
with Windoze so it's by far most prevalent. Netscape used to be the
main browser, now small market share but owned by AOL. Both these
browsers have problems (IE is slow, insecure and old, Netscape is also
outdated). Mozilla is IMO the best browser but ... back o the
chatroom. What we were trying to say was, if you used Netscape with AOL
then open IE to access the chatroom. But I dunno what to suggest if all
you were using was IE, except get another browser, could be tedious with
dialup but worth it.
Norm (I'm on rural dialup and downloaded Mozilla http://www.mozilla/org
)

PS: The liabilities with IE are that, without latest security patches,
it can download bad attachments; it also enables pop-ups (which can be
ads or nastier things); and it is often targetted byhackers because it's
Microsoft.

--
Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well
done. -- Ernie Kovacs

"Hopitus" wrote in message
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I think I got into the "room" and figured out how to put comments. But
where is the "send" button??? I've only been in one other chat room in all
these years:
the one @ Petloss on Mon. eves and it doesn't look like this one.


Hopitus, there IS no "send" button. The solution is to press 'Enter' :-)

Hans

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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"Yowie" wrote in message
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
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"Yowie" wrote in message
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"Flippy" wrote in message
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Hi group,

For those of you who are not already seen this notice, I would like
to
invite you to Flippy's Cat Chat Party that is being held in the
chatroom
on Sunday July 31st, for 3 hours starting 9am, Melbourne time.
Please
check the following links to find out what day/time it will be in
YOUR
time zone:

Australia/Pacific: http://tinyurl.com/cs5z3
North America: http://tinyurl.com/84859
South America: http://tinyurl.com/7aqz5
Europe: http://tinyurl.com/9ma6j
Asia: http://tinyurl.com/7pcwm
Africa: http://tinyurl.com/d2f8s

Several people that you already know will co-hosting the party with
me:
Jo Gray (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/sanity.html),
Vicky Chapman (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/rain.html), and

I'll be using mIRC to chat at Flippy's Cat Chat Party, because I can't
get
the Java to work on my PC. I assume I just have to enable something,
although i have no idea what.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Ta,
Yowie

What browser are you using?

D'Oh, that would have helped. IE 6.0 something something.

Yowie

'Kay, as far as I know, the latest versions of IE do not come with Java
already installed so you'll have to download it and install it. You can
get
it he http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

Thanks CN, it worked!

Yowie

Yowie wrote:
"Flippy" wrote in message
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I'll be using mIRC to chat at Flippy's Cat Chat Party, because I
can't get the Java to work on my PC. I assume I just have to enable
something, although i have no idea what.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Ta,
Yowie

Yowie, you'd be much happier using mIRC. The screen on the web link is SOOO
tiny! If you need help adding the server to your list in mIRC just let me
know for the next time

Jill