I think IRC is the best solution. Those who do not wish to fool
around with an actual IRC client can use the JAVA applet, pretty
similar to yahoo's applet. I do have one suggestion though...use
DALnet, or some other network with channel and nickname registration
services. Channels can get taken over too easily without these things
in place...not that anyone has it out for the QB community...but it
could happen.
Justin
XU