your absolutly right about the access fees involved ..... if ppl wish to chat somewhere .. they should learn to follow that networks policies ..... be it dalnet msn efnet or talkcity (the network in question here).
they want users to use the java for the ad banners in it which again if u dont want to use java fork over themoney to use an irc client your totally right the price is rather fair if u think about not having to deal with floodbots and generally harasing users who wont normally fork over any money to be chatting somewhere who could pull their access if they misbehave ... it has several reasons and pluses to that setup ... with only one drawback .. who wants to pay
