You might want to sign on to the free AOL Instant Messenger which will
tell you when one of your buddies is online. You can then arrange to
either talk privately or to meet in a chat room for group discussion.
I have an icon that will take you there for the download, about 1.6MB
and it works great. Goto; http://www.keelynet.com/chatsch.htm and
click on tha AOL banner, it really is very clean and easy to setup and
run. Or you can just go to http://www.aol.com and look for Instant
Messenger.
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