MJRay wrote

.......the IRC channel (irc.alug.org.uk #alug) seems to have people in it most of the time now, although sometimes not very talkative.

You may find you have to first silence the more loquacious members who like to go on at length about their motorbikes and hens. Jen (Bored waiting for a 1.2gig file to unzip and untar itself)