On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Nick B <nick.barbalich@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am now getting the message [10053 - software caused connection abort.] any suggestions on what may be causing this?

Wow, I've never heard of anyone having so many problems with IRC. Just.. try mibbit (http://www.mibbit.com/).

thanks for the suggestion.  I will give it a go.

Nick

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Nick B <nick.barbalich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am now getting the message [10053 - software caused connection abort.]
>> any suggestions on what may be causing this?
> 
> Wow, I've never heard of anyone having so many problems with IRC.
> Just.. try mibbit (http://www.mibbit.com/).

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:53:30 +0400, Nick B <nick.barbalich@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> thanks for the suggestion.  I will give it a go.
>
> Nick
>
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Nick B <nick.barbalich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am now getting the message [10053 - software caused connection abort.]
>>> any suggestions on what may be causing this?
>>  Wow, I've never heard of anyone having so many problems with IRC.
>> Just.. try mibbit (http://www.mibbit.com/).


Or you can run Opera and type irc://irc.freenode.org
The wizard will ask you for a name, mail and nick and that's all, you are in!

BTW, Opera may also be used as a newsreader client, and it is very good at it.
Try writing news://digitalmars.com