In any event, I have decided and gotten approval to bring back this facility. I would ask all commanding officers to please send a memo to their units regarding the Webchat... it will make it significantly easier for them to get on IRC for at least limited durations with relative use-ability.
For those who don't like it (and I know you exist
http://www.mirc.com/
mIRC is much more full-featured, it being an actual program versus a Java applet.
