when you jump into an IRC channel (chatroom), you are entering a conversation mid-way. there are plenty of advantages and disadvantages to IRC chatrooms and also to AIM chatrooms. i personally, seem to get better support for what i need in the irc chatrooms than i do on any other medium... try it out.. if you like the AIM or other chatrooms better, then of course use them... but i think that after getting used to mIRC, you'll find a lot of advantages irc has...
